![]() The film, named after a shore-line city, follows a group of characters in a series of semi (or not at all) connected plots, including one with a man who previously caused the accidental death of another while they worked on a boat during tsunami 2004 and has to reconcile with his alcoholism and a possible new love, another with a new coast-guard worker and his (unintentional) love interest, and a guy working at the weather-control center who has a very estranged relationship with his ex and his daughter who doesn't even know he's her father (since, you know, he works non-stop at a weather center tracking earthquakes and the like). So, perhaps, this is the first step towards healing: a big blockbuster that doesn't really elevate the form from previous American big-budget summer disaster-movie blockbusters, but doesn't suck like a box of Michael Bay d***s either. It's one of those monumental disasters-of-the-decade that in its own circles (i.e. I don't know why Je-gun Yun decided now was the time, or this was the subject, but it probably has something to do with an actual giant damn tsunami taking apart coastlines all across the south-east Asian seaboard and killing hundreds of thousands and displacing so many more. Why is this? Perhaps Korea didn't have the budget for it - apparently, at a mere 11 million US, this is the biggest budgeted movie in Korean history, and it looks like a giant Titanic-movie as one might expect - or the intent with the subject matter. It's taken this long, until 2009, so many years after fellows in other Asian countries (like Japan or, well, Japan) have done the disaster-movie thing over and over, usually with monsters. When failure isn’t an option, people can achieve great things … and I like characters like that.Koreans, apparently, have never made a big disaster movie until now. “There’s something I find fascinating about a fish-out-of-water scenario,” he says, “with an ordinary man who has to rise to the level of doing extraordinary things. Ziering’s successor to “Sharknado’s” chainsaw-wielding Fin Shepard is Hunter Shaw, who also has a unique weapon - “Hell, yeah!,” Ziering confirms - derived from zombie lore that the actor-producer researched. I’d had enough with shooting in freezing climates! Plus, the landscape there is really conducive to this movie it creates a perfect visual context.” Though he was ready to go at that point five years ago, Ziering explains “Zombie Tidal Wave” was delayed because “we kept making ‘Sharknados.’ Once those came to an end, I was able to get into production with this, and we shot it in Thailand. It was right around the time of ‘Sharknado 2: The Second One’ that I recognized the formula Syfy looks for in its movies, and I pitched them ‘Zombie Tidal Wave.’ And I knew that once I got the green light from them, finding financing would be pretty easy.” “I’ve got a production company, and I always wanted to branch out. “After doing those movies and realizing the need for content, I figured, ‘Why don’t I try to do something on my own?’ ” Ziering reflects. In this image released by Syfy, Ian Ziering, as Fin Shepard, battles a shark on a New York City street in a scene from “Sharknado 2: The Second One,” (AP Photo/Syfy) Ziering is a producer as well on the thriller, which also brings back another “Sharknado” alum, director Anthony C. Well, zombies … at least in Ian Ziering’s view.Īlso back in Fox’s current “BH90210” sequel series, the actor is returning to action-horror turf after surviving six “Sharknados.” He and a fellow veteran of that movie franchise - writer Thunder Levin - devised the story for “Zombie Tidal Wave,” making its Syfy debut Saturday, Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() When you don’t have sharks left to fight, what’s next? ![]()
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