Interview with Jeffrey Reddick

UGO interviews horror writer Jeffrey Reddick (Day of the Dead):

[The director] told me he wanted to make this more of an action movie, and that that was important to him. And we talked about the military, and we were originally going to have the military folks be older in the first few drafts of the story. But we'd seen so many movies you know like 28 Weeks Later or Aliens where you have these hardened military guys going up against some kind of monster. We said "well why don't we make them reservists?" You know, none of them know when they're called in that everyone is going to turn into a cannibal. They're not ready for that when they get there!

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