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Romero plans another Zombie film

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Friday, August 25, 2006
Source: Hollywood Reporter

According to The Hollywood Reporter, George A. Romero has signed on to write and direct GEORGE A. ROMERO'S DIARY OF THE DEAD.

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.

The film will be independently financed making it the first indie zombie film Romero has done in years.

Production has no set start date or schedule at this time.

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Comments/Responses

madmanic999 • Aug 25, 2006, 04:46am •

This is awesome news. The premise sounds completely baked, but I'm down with that. The weirder, the better.

snallygaster • Aug 25, 2006, 06:20am •

OK, somebody's gotta say it:

The Blair Zombie Project

Seriously though, it sounds like it could be fun.

Is this to be considered part of his Living Dead universe, or a completely seperate zombie movie?

evilron • Aug 25, 2006, 06:30am •

I agree that this sounds weird as hell, but I can't wait. You can never have too many zombies.

snallygaster • Aug 25, 2006, 06:36am •

And given the recent news I've been reading here, we are in for a lot of zombie movies.

• Aug 25, 2006, 06:57am •

I've got that Dead Rising game for the xbox 360, and if ANY of you love Romero movies, you MUST have this game. You can kill zombies with a lawn mower. I'm glad Romero is doing another one. I haven't seen the last one he did, but I will tonight. His movies always have a moral lesson to them, along with a sh*tload of zombie mahem. What more could you ask for.

• Aug 25, 2006, 08:09am •

blair witch with zombies lol. nah it sounds good to me i love zommmmmmbie movies. keep em coming Romero.

• Aug 25, 2006, 08:39am •

Is this a comedy? Will these be the traditional Romero slow-moving zombies or the faster 28 Days Later zombies? If they're the slow zombies, at least the film crew would have enough time to set up and light the shot! :-p

• Aug 25, 2006, 09:37am •

From the looks of him, Romero could turn the camera on himself to play a zombie! OLD. Whew.

Anyways, I'm just glad to see he's directing a movie that doesn't end in "...of the dead". I'll see it. Always good to see a master doing what he's good at. =)

• Aug 25, 2006, 09:42am •

The most engaging parts of Romero's zombie movies (or Dawn remake and Shaun of the Dead) had always been the "news" reports coming from the television--filming a zombie movie like a news camera "cinema verite" style might give the genre a genuine real creepiness about it that those news reports had. (Except for the over the top news report extra on the remake Dawn DVD which was just awful).

fft5305 • Aug 25, 2006, 09:44am •

ummm... "George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead" doesn't end in "...of the dead"?

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