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Cast and Setting Confirmed for Romero's Next ZOMBIE Film

By: Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Friday, October 03, 2008
Source: Variety

It seems that George A. Romero's next Untitled Dead Film is moving past the point of rumors (today's Mania column) onward to the point of casting and plot confirmations. The cast is seemingly locked in for his next zombie film, taking place shortly after Diary of the Dead and involving two returning characters from the 2008 film.

The newly confirmed cast includes Diary's Alan Van Sprang and Land of the Dead's Devon Bostick and also features newcomers Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti and Athena Karkanis.

Romero wrote the new film and began shooting this week in Ontario.

Plot Concept: Story involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure.



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blackshogun420ninja • Oct 03, 2008, 05:39am •
See, i'm already seein a problem wit dis1. Diary had way2 much o dat Human Emotion crap in it. Which made it quite boring. Mr. Romero's got a great eyeball4 gore and nice headshots,..really juicy feedings. But, Land was his last entertainin flick. Diary pissed me off.

And tha plot 4 this 1 sounds just as stupid. Instead of tryn2 survive, this fools iz gon be arguin about keepin a bunch o dead people safe. Man, please!!! Dead people try2 eat you, shoot em in tha head!! Don't hug em and get em a damn Blanket.

wolfmanX • Oct 03, 2008, 06:10am •
Yeah blackshogun420ninja I hear that. Forget about finding a cure and just try and survive while more and more zombies over populated the world and humans dont stand a chance. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah dont try and find a cure and have some hope just give up and try and stay alive. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah blackshogun420ninja thats pretty much a lame plot. Wow you changed my mind in watching a movie with some sort hope for mankind.

killerville • Oct 03, 2008, 08:59am •
Sounds a lot like Lucio Fulci's "Zombi2"
Nothing can EVER top the shark vs zombie scene in that movie, though.

Batman777 • Oct 03, 2008, 09:08am •
I dont understand WHY people keep watching THESE movies....TALK about a PLAYED OUT concept and idea....

So many complain on here about new storylines and ideas, YET this machine keeps churning the SAME OLE storyline.....GEEZ....seriously isnt this like "..SOMETHING of the DEAD 27"?

wolfmanX • Oct 03, 2008, 10:37am •
Zombie movies will never be played out. NOT EVER!!!!!!!!!!! Give me some more flesh eating Zombie movies anytime. :-)

joeybaloney • Oct 03, 2008, 11:37am •
People keep watchin’ cuz in their hearts people know this is gonna eventually come to pass Batman!

I’m really looking forward to this even though I was pretty disappointed with Diary. Romero is the zombie king no doubt. I still wanna know what ever happened to that sequel to Land that was supposed to focus on the Dead Reckoning crew.

More zombies.

On a side note I finally got around to watching that "remake" of Day of The Dead. Y'know it wasn't that bad all in all. Nice little zombie flick that spent a good amount of time on the actual zombie outbreak instead of it's aftermath. Too bad they didn't have the balls to let it stand on its own but instead went all lazy marketing and named it after Romero's classic. If you get the chance to see it bootleg/pirate/rental style its worth your time. But not worth rewarding that lazy marketing by buying a copy.

mckracken • Oct 03, 2008, 05:47pm •
killerville.. nothing can top the zombie vs shark? bullshit..
STICK THROUGH THE EYEBALL!

man that shit was disgusting and so real...even after all this time!

mckracken • Oct 03, 2008, 05:51pm •
oh... yes and there was a lot of dissapointment with LAND of the dead with the fans... DIARY of the Dead SUCKED ASS. (and I'm a Romero nut)

i think george should fire the Canadian CGI SFX company that did the effects on Diary because they sucked, those CGI were some of the most painfully obvious computer generated effects and they dont belong anywhere NEAR a horror film. The same company did the effects for Land of the dead too... if you cant do a shot without CGI.. dont DO THE SHOT....or find some way of creating an effect without CGI.

blackshogun420ninja • Oct 04, 2008, 12:25pm •
Indeed, WolfManX. Zombie flickz are always good. I just don't like havin high hopes4 gore and dey keep showin me regular people, talkin bout nuthin!! Eat em already!! I stayed away from Day of tha Dead cuz, i'm on a Nick Cannon Free diet. Sumbody please tell me he got bit, 8 up..or oohh!!! Ripped in half?!?! Anybody?...

blackshogun420ninja • Oct 04, 2008, 12:40pm •
Indeed, WolfManX. Zombie flickz are always good. I just don't like havin high hopes4 gore and dey keep showin me regular people, talkin bout nuthin!! Eat em already!! I stayed away from Day of tha Dead cuz, i'm on a Nick Cannon Free diet. Sumbody please tell me he got bit, 8 up..or oohh!!! Ripped in half?!?! Anybody?...

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