The Z is for zombie as Anita Dobson, Sue Johnston and Robert Lindsay star alongside a big ensemble forged.
Channel 4 have revealed the forged and first photographs from Technology Z which is at the moment filming.
The present comes from Ben Wheatley, higher identified for his film profession – each indie movies and greater funds destiny like Excessive Rise and The Meg 2: The Trench – that is his first authentic sequence. It’s described as “… a coming-of-age parable for our very unusual instances – reduce with a heavy dose of outlandish gore.”
Technology Z will apparently take a look at intergenerational justice and group breakdown whereas exploring teenage points.
Right here’s the synopsis:
Set within the fictional city of Dambury, the sort of place with stark alternatives and never a lot to do. Gray, unassuming, forgotten. It’s the final place you’d count on the apocalypse to start… However when a military convoy overturns exterior a care residence, a chemical leak begins to have an hostile impact on the residents there. The OAPs, led by Cecily and Frank, performed by Sue Johnston (The Royle Household) and Paul Benthall (The World’s Finish), escape the grasp of the military seeking to comprise their indignant, violent, insatiable starvation for uncooked flesh.
On the evening of the outbreak, youngsters – Charlie, Kelly, Steff and Finn, performed respectively by Jay Lycurgo (The Bastard Son & The Satan Himself), Buket Komur (Our Home), Lewis Gribben (Someplace Boy), and Viola Prettejohn (The Nevers) – live regular teenage lives: tinnies, messy emotions, advanced relationships and ignoring their A-Stage prep. However the gang abruptly discover themselves on the centre of the virus when Kelly’s nan Janine, performed by Anita Dobson (EastEnders) turns into contaminated and assaults her.
Simply because it’s the top of the world, it doesn’t imply your house life and relationship issues involves a halt, because the gang come up in opposition to the zombie horde, battling with their mother and father, friendship betrayals and outdated household secrets and techniques rearing their ugly heads. And life is simply as difficult for the zombies, with the virus fuelling single-minded wishes, bringing a complete new dimension to their zombie rampage. In the meantime, Finn worries for grandad-figure Morgan, performed by Robert Lindsay (My Household), when she involves the realisation that there is perhaps extra behind the chemical spill. Simply what precisely was being transported?
On high of the core forged, the present consists of appearances from Johnny Vegas and T’Nia Miller.
Ben Wheatley says:
“It’s been superb engaged on Technology Z with The Forge and Channel 4. It’s my first authentic sequence and a undertaking very near my coronary heart. I hope everybody loves it as a lot as we do.”
Technology Z comes from The Forge (Nationwide Treasure, Kiri) for Channel 4, in affiliation with ZDF and All3media Worldwide. Ben Wheatley writes and directs, and Alex Kazamia produces. The chief producers are Wheatley, Mark Pybus, George Faber and Beth Willis.
We’ll maintain you posted on Technology Z.