Pictures of Romero's DIARY OF THE DEAD

Loved the comment George threw out in his video on the Diary of the Dead MySpace page:

"This is not f*cking Blair Witch..."

You go George.

It may not be Blair Witch, but you can excuse the confusion..kids in woods making film. Also, it seems more like he is milking his own work. Hope he does better than he did with his last zombie project. I don't think he can blame this one on the budget and studio. The one thing that confuses me...it says in the article "part of his dead franchise", but I believe Romero has said it is not part of that world. Which is it?

Cappy, as I understand it, the positioning of this movie within the Dead series is a bit complicated... It's definitely not a sequel nor a remake. It's intended as a reboot of sorts. Supposedly it takes place at the very beginning of the zombie invasion, on the same night of the events seen in Night of the Living Dead. This, despite the fact that the movie clearly takes place 30 years later.

Land of the Dead was killer...I'm so looking forward to this.

I too was under the impression that this zombie movie was separate from the dead franchise. Snallygaster, could you please elaborate on your information?

It's from a post Romero made over on dead-central.com:

"Well, I’m sort of going back to the roots, basically. I’m going back to the first night, when things started. You know, I’ve done the four films in the series… can’t call it a trilogy anymore, cause there’s four of them… but I wanted to… you know there’s a lot of sort of unanswered questions. People keep saying, “Well, you know, like, can animals come back from the dead?” and a million unanswered questions…
So I wanted to go back to the very first night, the first night that it started, and I wanted do it from like a different, completely different perspective… and have characters that learn about it the way… in the original Night, you know the people in the farmhouse learn about it on the news and, you know, not so much from first-hand experience because they’re just locked up in this house.
So I wanted a new set of characters… and sort of like, I don’t know, Skip and Spector did those books called Book of the Dead, and so it’s basically going back to the beginning with a different set of character and taking the whole phenomenon as it comes. And it’s all subjective camera.
It’s a bunch of kids that are out making a movie… college kids that are making their own little horror flick and they have a camera… and they get the news and they take off in a van and it’s all then, it’s all from this guy’s camera. I guess, in a way I guess it’s like Blair Witch… but it’s not… you know, I’m not trying to imitate Blair Witch…. I’m just trying to do it from a subjective point of view with no music and no… just really do it raw. It’s kind of a stylistic experiment, under the radar, low budget thing. It’s just sort of from the heart, you know."
-GerogeA Romero

Oh! We can call this the experimental side story to Night of the Living Dead. It's still low budget, but then sort of weirdly updated for today rather than back in the day.

The whole thing just reminds me of Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. I just hope it doesn't feel much like the Blair Witch Project. These shots look alright. Guess we don't have so very long to find out.

I am a Romero fan of all of his films; The Dead Trilogy, Bruiser, The Dark Half, etc...It seems to me that the only kind of zombie films that I can watch, and actually enjoy and take seriously, are Romero's.

Still no release date for nationwide audiences?

Ok so this can happen in the same time frame as Shaun of the Dead. Did i read that right or is he planning on having undead animals in this film?