Cockneys Vs Zombies - Dawn of the brown bread

This is a new film, a comedy horror apparently, which began filming around London a few days ago. You may have heard of it already. You may even be planning to apply to join the cast of extras. But it was news to me this morning. And the extra work (over 18s only) is unpaid, which I think might be a breach of union rules. A few of my friends have done extra work in their time and they say the pay and conditions are very strict. Leaving that aside the plot synopsis is this:

"When you’re robbing a bank, a Zombie invasion makes things a lot harder. And let’s face it, Katy (Michelle Ryan), Andy (Harry Treadaway) and Terry (Rasmus Hardiker) need all the help they can get when their bank robbing experts turn out to be Mental Mickey (Ashley ‘Bashy’ Thomas) and Davey Tuppence (Jack Doolan). Just as contractors at an East London building site unlock a 350 year old vault full of seriously hungry Zombies, the East End has suddenly gone to Hell. Equipped with all the guns and ammo they can carry, it’s up to the gang to save the hostages, their grandparents and East London from Zombie-Armageddon. When it’s the undead vs the living… its Cockneys vs Zombies."

The East End has gone to hell all right, but I would prefer the undead to be the problem. The taliban are very much alive. As the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday reported yesterday as well as intimidating gays in East London non Muslim women are now being pressured to conform to the sharia dress code. A woman, born in Bangladesh who is an atheist, married to a Christian and employed by a Hindu pharmacist has been told, and her employer threatened about her English clothes. " “If she keeps working here and continues to dress like that, then we will boycott you because this is a Muslim area,” Which was followed by an even angrier younger man with a death threat.

Give me a zombie to fight any day of the week. Honor Blackman, who older men will remember from the first episodes of The Avengers, or maybe her role of Pussy Galore to Sean Connery's James Bond is also in the cast. I think she should still be a match for the creatures from the pit. If anybody spots filming around town I'll be interested to hear what and where. Canary Wharf is tipped to be the big set piece battle.