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Originally Posted by Phil  |
Check out the concept drawing: Oooh scary, kids!
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/pho.../zeb100509.jpg
It doesn't help that the guy comes off as a bit of a pretentious prick:
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/interview/602BD: Can you tell me a bit more about the "origins" story, how Barbara is in the movie?
Zeb: I've always been a big a fan of George Romero's zombie series and I really wanted to approach the story from the standpoint of staying true to the original which is kind of a catch 22. There had been some pretty bad remakes in the past and they were all regurgitating the same thing that Romero had already done. No one can compete with Romero's vision of Night. That film was perfection. So I asked myself, “how do you remake a movie with the intention of staying true to the original while not repeating the same ol' shit that everybody has seen?” And that's when I came up with the concept. There were always bits of dialogue in the original film describing everybody's personal back story in terms of their journey that led them to this house. Cooper and his family were attacked by the zombie plague and found themselves in the car being overturned. Ben found himself in the middle of a zombie riot witnessing a truck being chased down by a horde of these things. And these were all really cool ideas but we never got to see it. That is when I decided to do Night of the Living Dead Origins. I wanted to tell a part of the story that we never got to see. But I always wanted to give it a scope that has never been seen before in a zombie film, which is why I set it in New York. I think of this movie almost like an alternate time line in which this event takes place. As a zombie fan, I have always wanted to see those zombie riots that we have always yearned for. I wanted to see thousands of these things tearing apart the city in a post 9/11 world. Death, chaos, madness, explosions. I wanted to make my “Zombie Empire of the Sun”. I want this to be a very serious film minus the bad cliches which has become a pretty common practice in the making of a zombie film.
If NOTLD was so "perfection" than why are you even screwing around with it? This "no one can top the original but we still wanna mess with it" BS is the same thing the guys who made the 3D version said.
He must not have been paying attention to the film. There are never "thousands of these things tearing the city apart." The news brodcasts make it pretty clear that there are "some" incidents of murder or people going crazy. And that's
after they're secure in the house. Even taking into account Ben's diner story, the scope of the infestation's still not up to the level this guy's describing. If anything the preceding hours would be calmer.
Plus a lot of the pre NOTLD material was covered in a 90's comic called NOTLD PRELUDE. And there's also a shitty one called NOTLD: NEW YORK (that takes place several weeks after the film) along with a whole series written by Romero's former hack producer John Russo:
http://fangoria.com/features/comic-s...ic-review.html
So, this kids really he's not as clever as he thinks he is.
But it gets better:
Zeb: My company, New Golden Digital, has developed some new technology that we are utilizing on the film.
The technology is somewhat similar to James Cameron's system in the sense that if you were to do a side by side comparison, our system would be a Ferrari and his system would be a Model T Ford. Yes they both have four wheels and drive but one is clearly superior to the other.
Um, okay.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansit.../news/?a=10633In Simon West Productions' Night of the Living Dead: Origins, co-writer/director Zebediah de Soto says that he aims to use 3-D CGI to add in all of the bloody details that he feels are missing from other Romero films.
"I want to see a helicopter clipping its propeller on a building and careening into a crowd of people. Zombies going through the streets. A thousand people tearing each other apart, zombies tearing them apart, total chaos.
De Soto says Origins is not a prequel, but more an expansion of the universe that Romero created."I loved Romero's movie and there are so many people out there raping it to death, I didn't want to be next in line to the gang bang. But I really wanted to do something that was a little creative but an homage to what he was doing. I want to see a zombie...[with effects] done on a level no one has ever seen before like Spider-Man or The Hulk. Those effects applied to a zombie film."
Missing? But I thought the films were "perfect"?
As for people raping Romero, Pot, meet Kettle.
Last but not least, the short film/trailer he made that circulated around Hollywood and got Simon West's attention:
http://vimeo.com/4924063
