Well, I never! Capcom's zombies-in-a-mall masterpiece Dead Rising is raising some eyebrows over at New Line Cinema, and it has nothing to do with Frank wearing a dress.
New Line and the MKR group think that Capcom's sick sandbox game looks a little too much like George Romero's horror classic (and recent remake) Dawn of the Dead. The Hollywood Reporter says that New Line has claimed copyright infringement, but Capcom has fired back with a complaint filed yesterday in US District Court in Los Angeles. They say that "humans battling zombies in a shopping mall" is a "wholly unprotectible idea" by copyright standards. Never mind that the game specifically warns that "This game was not developed, approved or licensed by the owners or creators of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead."
What do you think? Is this copyright infringement? I'm sure some inspiration for the game was drawn from the film, although Capcom would never say that now. All I know is that they need to resolve this soon; I can only wait so long for Dead Rising 2.
Hit the jump for a really stupid/funny three-part series of Dead Rising opening fan dubs.
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3:58 PM on 02.14.2008
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me for taking magic mushrooms
Capcom creating Dead Rising has nothing to do with New Line's poor Dawn of the Dead remake, but the original movie and other Dead movies, yes.
Romero's name was gonna grace a City of the Dead game, that was due to be out month before Dead Rising in 06. The game never saw release and Dead Rising was a hit months later.
Hey, Dead Risng has a disclaimer on the box and dvd. New Line can go and jump. Its time for games to stop being a target for exploitation, because they are doing well.
Secondly: What does George Romero think? He's a pretty cool guy and probably doesn't mind at all.
C: Humans V. Zombies in a mall is definitely too broad a category to copyright. They might as well try to copyright "flesh-eating undead" while they're at it. If New Line really does win, I know a certain comic named Penny Arcade that may be in trouble.
Yeah.
That's it.
Haha, I see what you did there...
Also, Dead Rising is nothing like either of those movies
Dead Rising is a fricking hard game of a conspiracy plot to plan a terrorist attack on america.
Only similarity is the arrive and leave in helicopters.
It's obvious that Dead Rising was inspired by Dawn of the Dead (best zombie flick ever(the original)), but how can you sue someone because you inspired them?
It took them a year and a half to decide this?!? What the hell?!?
Kinda reminds me of the stunt MGM tried to pull with Nintendo all those years ago with Donkey Kong resembling King Kong. Heh, I wonder if like MGM and King Kong, New Line doesn't have the rights to Dawn of the Dead either. :p
i hope GAR had no hand in this and its all the doing of the dumbass movie execs.
maby a mmo or a rpg or maby a mmorpg zombie game were you have to survive and stuff and then you can over take houses or malls and live in them and stuff and you will find random ppl being attk'd and you can choose to save them and they will help you and what not and maby kinda like a deadrising/GTA that might be pretty cool but it will never happend
just zombie's no crazy looking mutaint zombies that are huge and really fast i like slow zombies but alot of them and when you get bit you only have so long to live or you gotta find a cure and stuff idk i think that soudns cool what about you all?