Dead Rising: Watchtower

Dead Rising: Watchtower
Director	Zach Lipovsky
Producer	Tim Carter Lorenzo di Bonaventura Chris Foss Tomas Harlan Gary Hawes Mike Jackson Andy Levine Zach Lipovsky Haruhiro Tsujimoto Kiichiro Urata Mahlon Todd Williams
Writer	Tim Carter
Music by	Oleksa Lozowchuk
Cinematography	Mahlon Todd Williams
Editor	Mike Jackson
Release date	March 27th, 2015
Runtime	118 Minutes

Dead Rising: Watchtower is a digital film from Legendary Digital Media that aired on Crackle. The film was produced by Tomas Harlan and Tim Carter. The film was directed by Zach Lipovsky.

Filming began on September 30th, 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was released on Crackle on March 27th, 2015. A sequel, Dead Rising: Endgame, was released in June 2016.

Plot

The events of this film take place between the events of Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 3. It takes place in the city of East Mission, Oregon. Although not confirmed, the year this movie takes place in is likely 2017, as the Museum of the Americas in Dead Rising 3 states that Zombrex chipping was introduced at that time, like in this movie.  

Set between the events of Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 3, the story follows online reporter Chase Carter and his camerawoman Jordan as they cover the stories of the people inside of the walled-in quarantined area in the fictional town of East Mission, Oregon, as the government (running an organization called F.E.Z.A.—Federal Emergency Zombie Authority) attempts to contain a viral outbreak that turns people into ravenous zombies. An anti-viral drug called Zombrex, that keeps the virus at bay, is being administered to those infected. When it becomes clear that the drug is no longer effective and a zombie outbreak purges the town and infects its inhabitants, Chase, Jordan, grieving mother Maggie, and survivor Crystal O'Rourke battle their way out of the city before it gets firebombed. Throughout the film, it is revealed that the Army implanted bad Zombrex in a refugee center to start another outbreak so that the government can be allowed to plant government-mandated Zombrex chip on the infected to track them, framing F.E.Z.A. for giving bad Zombrex to the infected. The coin that Jordan gave to Chase to open a newspaper vending machine at the beginning came in handy when she placed the evidence of the Army sabotaging the Zombrex inside the vending machine for him to find. When General Lyons figures out that Jordan and Norton are aware of the Army's actions, he has his men capture them to cover up the truth. In the end, Chase and Crystal manage to survive and get out of city and Jordan manages to get footage proving the Army's complicity in the new outbreak to Chase, who finds it in the newspaper vending machine, but the same footage shows her being taken by the military and the U.S. government are allowed to implant tracking chips on people who are infected.

Characters

On-set photo of Jesse Metcalfe as a survivor, Chase.

• Jesse Metcalfeas Chase Carter
• Dennis Haysbertas General Lyons
• Virginia Madsen as Maggie
• Meghan Ory as Crystal O'Rourke
• Kegan Conor Tracey as Jordan Blair
• Rob Riggle as Frank West
• Carrie Genzel as Susan Collier
• Harley Morenstein as Pyro
• Aleks Paunovic as Logan
• C. Ernst Harth as Bonzo
• Peter Benson as Bruce
• Gary Jones as Norton
• Paul Lazenby as Larry
• Julia Benson as Amy
• Reese Alexander as Shearson

Videos

Dead Rising- Watchtower - OFFICIAL TRAILER

Trivia

• Many in game items such as Frank statue, combo Weapons and Servbot helmet make an appearance in this film.
  • Frank Statue is one of the collectible from in Dead Rising 3.
  • Sledge Saw, Boomstick, Pole Weapon (that is from Dead Rising 2 version), Mauler and Sabre Shot all were in game Combo Weapons that make an appearance in the film.
    • Despite this Mauler that make an appearance in the film one of side is Shovel rather than Machete in Dead Rising 3.
  • Servbot helmet is weapon that can putting zombie on the they head from all Dead Rising franchise, also act as for the player clothing.
• Frank mentions saving kids during the Willamette Incident, despite that not happening anywhere in the game. Two reasons for this are possible. On a space-themed roller coaster in the mall, a clown named Adam was holding bloody rag dolls resembling children hostage alongside an actual living survivor. He could either be misremembering the dolls as actual kids due to how disturbing the incident was compared to the other psychopaths, or he could simply be lying to the attractive reporter in an effort to gain her attention.
• At one point there is a zombie that wears a yellow and black jacket that looks similar to Chuck's jacket from the Dead Rising 2.
• The zombie clown Bonzo is a reference to Adam MacIntyre, a psychopath from the first game.
• Despite the events taking place before Dead Rising 3, one of the bikers can be seen playing Dead Rising 3 in their base.
• Jherii’s theme plays on one of the biker’s stereos during their takeover of the city.
• The Sawblade battleaxe shown was inspired by ZNA's (Eli).
• General Lyons has a phone call to Hemlock, one of the antagonists of Dead Rising 3.
• The film also shows when and why the government introduced Zombrex Microchips later in the Dead rising 3 game.
• At some point, the symbol of The Illegals from their shelter can be seen. this is The Illegals sign from Dead Rising 3. The sign serves as Safe Zones marker.

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