King of the zombies and Empire icon, George A Romero is planning to resurrect his shuffling flesh-eaters for another apocalyptic epic. Going under the amusing working title of Something Of The Dead, the horror meister plans to follow on from the events of Diary Of The Dead but promises it won't be a direct sequel.
“It’ll be about three weeks in (past the initial zombie outbreak) and it doesn’t start with the people in the mansion (at the end of Diary Of The Dead)," says Romero to Shlock Around The Clock. "It starts with the blonde who drove away and the national guardsmen who robbed the people. So those are the only characters that return.
"What it’s about is tribalism. How the internet creates a Hatfields and McCoys situation. It’s on an island, where people have been lured by someone on the net as a safe haven, but really what these guys are trying to do is hold them up at the boat docks.”
For anyone who has read Max Brooks' excellent World War Z (which tells the tale of a worldwide zombie infestation and is itself crying out to be made into a TV series), there's even more exciting news from Voltage Pictures' Nicolas Chartier.
“We’re shooting underwater zombies,” Chartier revealed. “They’re swimming, grabbing people’s legs, pulling them down. It’s a lot of fun.”
Zombies. Underwater. Genius!
While we'll agree that Diary Of The Dead was a little underwhelming, we've still got enough faith in Romero's abilities to get really rather excited by this. Keep it locked on to Empire Online for all the latest developments.
I have to admit, I'm not really keen on another Romero Zombie film, I saw Rec and Diary of the dead back to back, similarish premise...REC blew D.O.D out of the water... in fact ''Diary'' was a load of shite...
In fairness however, Land of the Dead (directors cut) was thoroughly enjoyable... so dunno... ... Read More
lets not forget that all romero's 'dead' films other than land, had tiny budgets, and he still makes good movies, give old george some money and lets see some zombie action, ... Read More
lets not forget that all romero's 'dead' films other than land, had tiny budgets, and he still makes good movies, give old george some money and lets see some zombie action, ... Read More
Good God, why?
The last 'installment' was one of the most pitiful excuses for a movie I've had to sit through in an age - just throw the towel in already George, it's starting to stink like 3 year old Gorgonzola. ... Read More
Well I'm excited by the news.I thought Diary was a lot of fun, for what it was. Romero's career has been patchy but even his good work tends to get reappraised a few years down the line before it's evenm considered half-decent. ... Read More
George Romero's Zombie movies are all cack.
Zack Snyder showed him how it should be done in his recent turbo charged remake. Hell - even Stuart Gordon's old Reanimator movie is still worth a watch. Difficult to get worked up about a film director trying to reanimate the last remnants of a half dead film career..... ... Read More
