Lee Unkrich, the film's director, said that Mama Coco was not based on any real person they met while traveling, Entertainment Tonight reported. The character in the movie was voiced by Ana Ofelia Murgua.
And Mara's family have claimed since the Disney film came out, that the production team took a picture of the grandma which they believed the character was based off. However in 2024, Unkrich tweeted that Mam Coco was not based upon a real person. He added: "She sprang solely from our imagination."
28 Days Later and Return Of The Living Dead have both been cited as the start of the fast zombie genre, but 1980's Nightmare City got there first. Nightmare City is the first real fast zombie movie and came many years before the likes of 28 Days Later.
The series features Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Two films have been released in the series thus far: the original film of the same name in 2009, and a sequel Zombieland: Double Tap in 2024.