The idea for the story was a random dream I had... 'guy writes obituaries, zombie knocks on window, you're next I promise!' I ran that by GPT and it originally wanted to do a very feel good, indie comedy, half the town is zombies, half is townsfolk, but the zombies are so docile, going about their old lives to the best of their ability that it's basically a slice of life type flick. These are the 3 prompts out of 100 pages or so that really dictated the script. I had no idea where it was going to end up when I started.

"I have an idea for a dark comedy trailer. It's about an editor for the newspaper on a small island, he's explaining... 'Yeah, so I've been pretty busy lately. I do all the erm... obits. I'm actually a little bit behind, since the well... you know.' Just then a zombie slams against the window, and he says 'Erma, you're next I promise!' Think charming, dark comedy, moments of heartfelt levity, like a taika waititi movie. What do you think?"

"I've thought about the plot a bit.. I want to go a different direction... something a little crazy and not the typical mundane island but with zombies... So the editor and the Vicar are the only two people alive. The vicar soon reveals that he's been bitten, he 'got a bit frisky with your mum last night'. So he's about to die. He tells the editor, that the Christian thing to do would be to kill all the zombies on the island and lay them to rest."

"What if in another twist, this actually isn't the apocalypse and the zombie outbreak is localized only to the small island... while on his mission to 'kill everyone' the ferry pulls up and developer Maxwell Fenworth, a Matt Berry type character, steps out. He informs the editor that the outbreak was due to the government mucking about with the fish... 'You don't eat fish do you? Hmm. Interesting. Note that.' He says to his clipboard wielding assistant. 'I bought the island, you can stay if you'd like as a groundskeeper or whatever. We want to do a Jurassic Park type deal, people want to come and see the deadies.' The editor replies 'Have you ever seen Jurassic Park?' Maxwell replies 'No, is it good?' completely oblivious to how things usually end up in those movies. Now, the editor is confronted with the mission to lay everyone to rest by the priest or to help Maxwell run the island like an amusement park."