Dead Rising: Watchtower

Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)

A Quarantined City. A Deadly Conspiracy.

An ineffective vaccine fails to stop an epidemic which is turning people into zombies. The survivors organize themselves to escape from the living dead.

Date of release
2015-03-27
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (394)
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction, Action
Director
Zach Lipovsky
Collection
Dead Rising Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Dead Rising
  • Filmed in: Vancouver

Dead Rising: Watchtower is a 2015 American action zombie film directed by Zach Lipovsky, produced by Tomas Harlan and Tim Carter, and written by Tim Carter. The film stars Jesse Metcalfe, Dennis Haysbert, Virginia Madsen, Meghan Ory, Keegan Connor Tracy, and Rob Riggle. It is based on the video game of the same name. Principal photography began on September 30, 2014, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Legendary Pictures produced the picture as its first digital film through its Legendary Digital Media division and it was released on Crackle on March 27, 2015.

Production

On June 19, 2014, it was announced that Legendary Pictures' Legendary Digital Media would develop its first digital feature film based on the video game Dead Rising, Lorenzo di Bonaventura would executive produce, Tim Carter would write and produce with Tomas Harlan through their Contradiction Films. The film is not a part of Legendary's 5-year deal with Universal Pictures.

On September 29, the official title was confirmed as Dead Rising: Watchtower and the cast announced including Jesse Metcalfe, Dennis Haysbert, Virginia Madsen and Meghan Ory. More cast joined on October 20, including Rob Riggle, Harley Morenstein, Keegan Connor Tracy and Aleks Paunovic.

The principal photography on the film began in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 30, 2014. On October 21, a photo from the set was revealed by Crackle.

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