The zombie apocalypse continues

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:50 pm

[ Film & TV -> Update ] - More info on <a href="#George Romero">Person: George Romero</a> | More info on <a href="#Diary of the Dead">Film & TV: Diary of the Dead</a>

We don't cover many movies here at DaC, but screw it. George Romero is great. And it's <a target="_self" href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/7081">just been announced</a> that he's working on the 5th film in the zombie-apocalypse '... of the dead' series, which started in the 1960s with Night of the Living Dead. This one's called, somewhat lamely, Diary of the Dead:<blockquote>The dead are rising again.

The
Hollywood Reporter writes that horror maven George A. Romero has signed
on to write and direct "George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead," the
latest sequel to his 1968 cult classic "Night of the Living Dead."

With a story mixing elements of "The Blair Witch Project" and the
long-running "Dead" series, the film will follow a group of college
students shooting a horror movie in the woods who stumble upon a real
zombie uprising. When the onslaught begins, they seize the moment as
any good film students would, capturing the undead in a "cinema verite"
style that causes more than the usual production headaches.

After going more than two decades without making an independently
financed zombie film, Romero told his production partner Peter Grunwald
he was frustrated working within the system. "I was trying to convince
Peter we could just run off and do it ourselves," he said. </blockquote>It's not clear on whether this is a direct sequel or something of a spin off, but I don't care that much: nobody does zombies munching on brains like George Romero. Spotted @ <a href="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com">Bloody-Disgusting.com</a>

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:48 pm

It's obviously some fucking spin off. Unless he wants to fuck up his own universe. I was hoping for an honest to god sequel. Land of the Dead was... uh.. yeah.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:52 pm

P.S. Teatime is a hotlinking OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone. Let's burn him to the ground with fire.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:22 pm

Well fuck that picture. I just copied and pasted and the picture came with the article.

Anyway, yeah I dunno why he's doing this spinoff, the article mentions World of the Dead as being the next thing, so... I dunno. Surely not a SLAM DUNK project?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:23 pm

Blairwitch project feat zombies?

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:32 pm

Hum, the premise sounds pretty bland. Wonder if Romero will manage to pull this one off. Better not be Land of the Dead all over again.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:36 pm

Land of the Dead didn't have much of a plot, but it was good at portraying a zombie world and had some interesting characters... Dennis Hopper for instance... the whole thing was just undeveloped as far as plot went.

T-900 · Post by **T-900** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:39 pm

Hmm. Returning to simplicity with a low budget might bring back some of the old charm.

*pats George on the back*

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:20 am

jetbaby wrote:It's obviously some fucking spin off. Unless he wants to fuck up his own universe. I was hoping for an honest to god sequel. Land of the Dead was... uh.. yeah.

Land of the Dead was a decent critique on class structure, although a campy one. Not at all one of the Dead series but still a worthwhile viewing. I had heard that his next Dead film was going to be "Road of the Dead" or something like that where the lead from Land did a road trip across the zombie wasteland. Glad to see he is going back to his roots and doing it all himself, leading me to believe the shortcommings of Land will not be repeated.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:38 am

I really dont care about how zombies evolve like in Land of the Dead, I thought that was just not very well done, it's just giving the zombies too much personality. His new movie or whatever sounds like a lot more fun except its in a forest and its about a group of teens.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:10 am

When you find people who start to cheer for the zombies more then the humans, there's something wrong.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:29 pm

Land of the Dead was supposed to be two hours of Dead Reckoning blowing shit up. I shit you not. But some Big Budget Hooplah We Own You Do It Our Way shit happened and Romero got fucked in the ass. Basically he had 8 months of production time and the final result was not at all what he had planned for.

I want him to get a big budget and a lot of freedom in movie making. Like that'll happen.

Also, learning zombies are retarded, that's why the of the Dead series kind of turned me off after Day of the Dead, I knew exactly what was coming in Land when I first heard about it and I was not thrilled.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:44 pm

It's strange that Romero isn't bankable enough for a studio to give him a bunch of money and say he can do what the fuck he wants. If you're gonna market a movie on his name, why wouldn't you let him make the movie he wants?

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:52 am

It's like the world has gone insane or something.

Frater Perdurabo · Post by **Frater Perdurabo** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:53 pm

At least they manage to come with an original name for each new movie

How about an original plot for a change?

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:12 pm

zombie survivor. tv drama at primetime. fat attention whores compete for the best machette. bonus round for hunting rifle and 6 rounds. kulmination of the fight between moral majority and dead cravings for meat.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:30 pm

script review: http://www.flixens.com/script_review_ro ... f_the_dead

Amusing, bright pink, site run by a bunch of girls.