All of Us Are Dead Creator Dong-geun Joo Talks Zombies And Adaptations
Joo's account of stepping back from the Netflix adaptation, leaving director Jae-kyoo Lee to reinterpret the webtoon as he saw fit, offers a creator's own read on how much distance a live-action version can carry and still send viewers back to the source.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Dong-geun Joo, creator of the webtoon All of Us Are Dead, spoke with Anime News Network after appearing at the Korean Culture Center Los Angeles on September 11 for an event on Korean webtoons. Joo said he deliberately avoided The Walking Dead while drawing the series and stayed out of the Netflix adaptation, which he treats as a separate work. He is now working on Adonai.
Joo made his debut with All of Us Are Dead in 2009 and serialized it in Korea until 2011. Zombies were uncommon in Korean comics at the time. On the Netflix series, he said director Jae-kyoo Lee contacted him about the adaptation, gave him the script, and Joo never opened it; he preferred to watch the finished video rather than read the script first. He described adaptations that differ from the source as potentially useful, since viewers who come through the live-action version may go looking for the webtoon.
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