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Post by Nobody on Aug 24, 2006 19:32:56 GMT -5
"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."
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Post by Canetoad on Aug 24, 2006 20:28:55 GMT -5
That's awesome news LdC... who's been slotted for its remake in 2010?
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Post by Nobody on Aug 24, 2006 20:49:14 GMT -5
I know Im so fucking excited! And HNT was saying that he didn't think Romero would get a chance to do another zombie film after Land Of The Dead. ;D ;D
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Post by Nobody on Aug 25, 2006 12:04:45 GMT -5
Wow, I thought everyone would be all over this thread by now.
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Post by Canetoad on Aug 25, 2006 20:09:01 GMT -5
It's been pretty quiet around here lately
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Post by Nobody on Aug 25, 2006 23:53:12 GMT -5
indeed.
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Post by Jen on Aug 26, 2006 14:26:22 GMT -5
Hey this is awesome news!! I can't wait for this, it sounds very promising.
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Post by Nobody on Aug 26, 2006 15:59:51 GMT -5
It does.
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Post by CT on Aug 29, 2006 22:09:32 GMT -5
I heard this news somewhere else and didn't know a thread had been started here. Should be good, Romero will have more freedom with it. I knew he'd come up with something before too long.
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Post by Canetoad on Aug 30, 2006 0:29:57 GMT -5
toad wishes he could do something with fireworks on screen. A wholly NEW movie... by one of the greats... no remake/re-imagining. Woo hoo.
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Post by Nobody on Aug 30, 2006 9:21:38 GMT -5
;D
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Post by HNT on Aug 30, 2006 21:02:25 GMT -5
This is fantastic
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Post by Nobody on Aug 30, 2006 21:14:23 GMT -5
Yea. Hopefully this will turn out better and have a more Romero feel since he is getting it independently financed.
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Post by CT on Aug 30, 2006 21:29:03 GMT -5
I bet it'll be better than Land of the Dead even though I liked that one alright.
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Post by Nobody on Aug 30, 2006 21:33:11 GMT -5
Yea it was an alright film and a fun zombie film, but it just didn't feel like Romero.
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