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Attack of the KILLER . . sheep
By Chris Dias
Dec 8, 2005, 16:24

Visual Effects supervisor Richard Taylor (King Kong, Lord of the Rings) is apparently ready to return to the comedy/horror roots that made him and Peter Jackson famous. But this time it won't be zombies running rampant in New Zealand . .

Black Sheep is "a movie we've been trying to get off the ground for about a year. It's a weird sheep movie, where sheep run amok in New Zealand. When there's 40 million sheep and only 4 million people, imagine how messy that could be. These are werewolf sheep, and it's a real horror movie. We're going back to our roots. It's a real Braindead movie, a splatter movie. It's a small New Zealand movie. It's wonderful for us, because it affords us the ability to go back to our roots, to go back to animatronics."

In case you missed it, he's going back to his roots.

"The script is beautiful, and that's where it all starts. It's funny. It's scary. It's wonderful fun, with crazed, bloody, animatronic sheep. The deadline is very, very short, so we have to bring all of our innovative thought to bear on it, but we're all excited about it."

Alright, I'll bite. The whole sheep thing is a little too much on the "randomly wacky" side for me, but if it does turn out anything like Dead Alive/Braindead, we could have a new cult-classic on our hands. And then millions of people will return from their video stores ready for some Chris Farley/David Spade hijinks, only to get a movie about killer farm animals.