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Originally Posted by bronco67
they both came out around the same time. I think its coincidental, and both writers just needed a way to skip past the why and how of the outbreak, and get to the survival part. A coma is the perfect writing device to accomplish that.
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Agreed, but having the same intro in 2 different zombie movies in the same year is well past coincidence.
In this interview i found with Danny Boyle the interviewer says Walking Dead comic came out 6 months after 28 Days Later-http://www.aintitcool.com/node/39124
"Quint: Have you ever read Robert Kirkman?s WALKING DEAD, the graphic novels?
Danny Boyle: No.
Quint: The comic book. It?s like one of my favorite? it?s like the zombie story that George Romero never told, essentially. It?s that kind of thing. It?s a great book, but it came out maybe within six eight months after your movie. And it opens almost exactly the same.
Danny Boyle: Does it?
Quint: And he got a lot of crap for it and he?s like ?no I swear, when I wrote it, it hadn?t come out,? but it?s a cop who in the first page it?s the only page of the entire series that is pre-zombie and so it?s a cop with him and his partner in a shootout, and he gets hit, and then in the next page he?s in the hospital waking up."
Not to defend 28 Days later though, it wasn't all that a bag of blood either.