George Romero's Diary of the Dead

[joule]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=357216

George Romero's Ready with Another Zombie Movie
Scott Weinberg writes: "Fresh off the success of his "Land of the Dead," zombie-master George A. Romero has decided to "go indie" on his next "Dead" sequel, which will be called "Diary of the Dead" and goes into production this October.

From The Hollywood Reporter: "George A. Romero has signed on to write and direct "George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead," following in the tradition of 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."

Cool!

The "Dead" series goes like this: "Night" (1968), "Dawn" (1978), "Day" (1985), and "Land" (2005)."

Let's hope to God that this is better than his previous, Land. I just don't see it living up to his originals.

 

[Lucid]

Sounds intriguing.

 

[DeusExMachina]

I liked Land. But this doesn't sound interesting at all. He said he might start a new trilogy.

 

[Warbie]

Let's hope to God that this is better than his previous, Land.

Agreed, Land was awful. It did have a little zombie diary movie in the extra features which was pretty good, though. Diary of the Dead sounds like an expanded feature length version of this.

On the plus side, the series can hardly get any worse

 

[Lucid]

Why does everyone think that Land of the Dead was so bad?

I thought it was excellent. :/

 

[DeusExMachina]

My only complaint with it was that it should've been longer. Character development would've went better and there'd be more killing zombie action.

 

[Adrien C]

My god; could this guy do worst ?
How pathetic does this sound, just imagine how bad the shots and how shaky the camera is going to be.

Land of the dead was a horrible movie, I mean, inteligent zombies ?

 

[DeusExMachina]

If you saw any of his other movies, you'd realize it wasn't the first time he showed intelligent zombies. No, I guess fast zombies make more sense :|.

 

[Jangle]

I thought land of the dead was good, just not a lot seemed to happen.

 

[Lucid]

My only complaint with it was that it should've been longer. Character development would've went better and there'd be more killing zombie action.

Yeah, it was only what? An hour and a half? two hours long?

Land of the Dead really should've been atleast a 3 hour movie... or maybe that's overkill.

 

[Warbie]

3 hours and I would have shot myself before the end. It's not often you find a zombie movie that isn't either funny, scary or tense. With Land ofthe Dead Romero managed it.

 

[DeusExMachina]

I've never found any zombie movie to be scary or tense.

 

[Geogaddi]

You can never have enough zombies.

I've never found any zombie movie to be scary or tense.

Have you seen 28 Days Later?

 

[DeusExMachina]

That's technically not a zombie movie .

 

[smwScott]

Night of the Living Dead was an amazing movie, and Dawn was pretty decent. I never saw Day, but Land was absolutely terrible. Just a complete waste of a movie.

Part of that though is that I went into Night without knowing anything about it thinking it would be some absolutely terrible movie but ended up really enjoying it. With Land I went into it expecting another good movie from the guy who made Night and Dawn ... but still the movie sucked and the old ones were good.

This may be interesting, probably not.

 

[Geogaddi]

I guess 28 days later wasn't technically a zombie movie, but it was damn close. I mean, infection wipes out entire landmasses except for a handfull of survivors left to fight off the infected. Spreadys through blood, all that jive.


No matter how terrible the story, zombie movies will always be worth watching for me.

 

[mastag]

No matter how terrible the story, zombie movies will always be worth watching for me.

shaun of the dead FTW.

 

[Potemkin]

You can never have enough zombies.



Have you seen 28 Days Later?

That's technically not a zombie movie .

Well, if you want to be technical about it, neither are Romero's films. But let's not be anal about it, eh?

Land of the dead was a horrible movie, I mean, inteligent zombies ?

What about it?

 

[DeusExMachina]

Well, if you want to be technical about it, neither are Romero's films. But let's not be anal about it, eh?

They are what mainstream media considers zombies. And I was only kidding. So let's not be anal about it.

 

[stemot]

Land was an awesome film, people need to realise that intelligent zombies was the way the Romero Zombie films were going since the zombie in dawn made a choice to take the gun on the helipad.