Queen Zombie

So, what are the odds that the Queen comes back as a zombie and disrupts the coronation of King Charles III?  You could just see the zombie Queen crashing into Westminster Abbey, tear the crown off of Charles' head and knock the orb out of his hand before she tries to tear his throat put with her bare dentures.  Doubtless, he'd be flailing around trying to beat her back to death with the sceptre, shouting to his security detail to 'shoot her in the head'.  Maybe the whole of the recently deceased Royal Family could crawl out of the tomb at Windsor, in various states of decay and cause mayhem at the coronation.  Prince Philip, (who, face it, looked like the living dead in his last days), could lurch toward Liz Truss )if she's still Prime Minister), arms out stretched like Bela Lugosi in Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman, and try to tear her head off, while the Queen Mother could try to eat the Archbishop of Canterbury, (so long as her jaw doesn't fall off, mid bite).  Doubtless, it would transpire that they'd been resurrected by a Royalist faction unhappy at Charles' 'too woke' reign and his plans to slim down the royal Family by dispensing with the hangers on.  See, this stuff just writes itself.  Perhaps we need to get this going as a conspiracy theory - that the Queen will rise from the tomb at the coronation in order to save the monarchy.

Well, it would make a great movie, if nothing else.  Surely somebody put there must be planning something like this for a direct-to-streaming release?  Or are we past peak low budget, shot-on-mobile-phone zombie movies?  Even if we weren't, I'm not sure that anyone would have the nerve to try and make something like this - there's just too much deference to the monarchy about in the UK.  Besides, you'd never get away with filming it in the UK - the tabloids would be all over it, shouting 'Treason' etc and the production inevitably shut down.  It would have to be shot overseas in some unlikely location pretending to be London.  Preferably one which gives tax breaks to film productions.  I mean, you'd be amazed how much like London Luxembourg looks.  At least, that's what the makers of some direct-to-video Jack Higgins adaptations tried to make us think back in the nineties.  (There was also, I vaguely recall, one of those cheesy Charles and Diana romance TV movies which tried to convince us that Luxembourg looked like central London).  Nowadays they tend to prefer Hungary or Romania as locations for these sorts of things - let's face it, for international audiences who have never been to the UK, as long as there are lots of old buildings and a red double decker bus, then it looks like London.  

Anyway, that's my latest low budget movie idea: Zombie Queen, Queen Zombie, Queen of the Zombies, or whatever.  I'm putting it out there for potential backers - just the publicity it would generate by getting the right wing press' piss boiling would surely guarantee a hit.