George Romero Speaks About the Pros and Cons(about his 4th movie LAND OF THE DEAD)

Great news! Never cared for DIAMON DEAD anyway. As long as he gets to make his 4th DEAD film and THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON I'll be happy.

Oh, and by the way:

http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55042

Totally agree with you Wetbones. Who really cares about Diamond Dead when a fourth Dead movie can be made? And Tom Gordon was a great little novel from King, and IMO Romero did one of the best(and little seen) King adaptations with The Dark Half.

That and I have the suspicion that it would turn out to be a feature length version of that horrid goth club scene in BRUISER ...

Muwhahahahaha my prediction has come true. Look at me I'm psychic.

I'm happy as hell Romero will get his chance finally. I only hope the studio is smart enough to stay the hell out of his way. If a studio can give Rob Zombie lots of money and total and complete freedom then George should be able to as well. Land of the Dead is a great title.

I can't wait for this movie, this was what I was hoping would happen. I don't give a shit about Diamond Dead but another Dead movie is completely mind blowing. And Tom Gordan would make an awsome movie if they got a good child actor to play the lead.

They already got Dakota Fanning who was more than just good in MAN ON FIRE.

She would be perfect. I saw Man on Fire and even though I didn't like the movie that much she was one of the best child actors I have ever seen.

This news just makes me soooo happy. After all these years of waiting it's really starting to look like the 4th Dead movie will actually get made.

Finally able to see a Romero Dead film in theatres....so happy....

what's "THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON" about?

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha's mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving from Boston to small-town Maine, where classmates razz him. Trisha steps off the trail for a pee and a respite from the bickering. And gets lost.
Trisha's odyssey succeeds on several levels. King renders her consciousness of increasing peril beautifully, from the "first minnowy flutter of disquiet" in her guts to her into-the-wild tumbles to her descent into hallucinations, the nicest being her beloved Red Sox baseball pitcher Tom Gordon, whose exploits she listens to on her Walkman. The nature writing is accurate, tense, and sometimes lyrical, from the maddening whine of the no-see-um mosquito to the profound obbligato of the "Subaudible" (Trisha's dad's term for nature's intimations of God). Our identification with Trisha deepens as we learn about her loved ones: Dad, a dreamboat whose beer habit could sink him; loving but stubborn Mom; Trisha's best pal, Pepsi Robichaud, vividly evoked by her colorful sayings ("Don't go all GIRLY on me, McFarland!"). The personal associations triggered by a full moon, the running monologue with which she stays sane--we who have been lost in woods will recognize these things.

In King's revealing Amazon.com interview, he said the one book he wishes he'd written was Lord of the Flies. When Trisha confronts a vision of buzzing horror in the middle of the woods, King creates his strongest echo yet of the central passage of Golding's novel. - Tim Appelo

Con: Most of the people who have read the script says it sucks noodles.

Pro: He has so many fan boy followers it really doesn't matter.

Great News!!!!!


I just **ahem** "read" a "re-vised" version of GAR's "Land Of The Dead" script (pre-production) an lemme
tell ya'.............



It's gonna kick "DOTD 2004" 's ass in a "big bad bully of the block" kinda way.
He made an improved re-write on the dialogue, changed a couple of scenes, but the theme is generally the same........

"The secure high-rise building.......... Riley, and the cowboys going into "stench-town" to gather supplies...
And enough gore to keep fans happy."


I went through great pains to get the damned thing, but needless to say, it's looking good for GAR.

SUPPORT IT WHEN IT COMES TO THEATRES!!!!!!!!!!!

I really don't know if that was sarcasm

.........it better kick ass.

It great that LotD's getting made, and possibly bad that Diamond Dead might fall by the wayside, but my question is: Is there any chance of this news negitively affecting Day of The Dead: Contagium?

Please?

guhhhh?

I mean Diamond Dead sounded okay (mostly just cause Romero and zombies) and Day of the Dead:Contagium looks/sounds awfull, but too both....who cares? I mean, I'm more that happy to see those and more go by the wayside and disappear to finally get this fourth dead film. I mean, I'm just giddy about the whole thing. It being in Variety! Awesome. It's getting harder and harder to doubt this is gonna happen (something we've all been pretty good at for years....it seemed like such a slim hope.) I'm justn thrilled that this is gonna happen.

Also, glad I'm seeing Romero at the Flashback Weekend horror convention in Chicago in two weeks. This seems like a great time to see him with news going good on LOTD.....hopefully get even more info which = stronger hope. (cause in the back of my mind I'm still thinking...nah, it won't happen....it's a hard habit to shake off.)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again and again and again:

Zombies: The cause of, and solution to all of life's problems.


This news makes me wetter than a fat girl at a smellum contest.


I love the idea of the "evolving zombies" and if Romero's doing it, hopefully it will put an end to the endless stupid debates about what zombies can and can't do.

I think the concept of the fortified cities and the scavengers is a great one, let's hope there enough zombie action, and not too much on bull shit Road Warrior style chases.

I figure the Dead Reckoning monster truck is now a 2nd sub-plot, but that's fine with me.

Ever since I read this news yesterday, I've been smiling all day.

Remember, a zombie movie is still a zombie movie...

and when you've sat through as many Italian zombie movies as I have (and as many as many of you have, also) then this is great news!

I seriously doubt filmmaker the world over are going to say to themselves "Oh, well, Romero said zombies don't run, so we can't do that"...it's creative freedom, zombies being fictional creations and all. Think of how many re-definitions of vampires and werewolves there have been.

Oh, I agree whole heartedly, what I mean is fans saying "zombies don't run/jump/talk, etc."

I'm under the belief that in a zombie movie, whatever the zombies in that movie do is fine...after all, they are in that particular movie.

A huge debate on these boards was about the Dawn 2004 zombies running, and how they were so removed from Romero's...

so now it will be interesting to see how the reaction will be IF Romero makes his zombies runners...considering he is the father of the modern zombie movie.

But, like I said, I don't care if Romero's new zombies shit dinosaurs, run around or quote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

They're zombies, and that's cool with me.

Plus, they're Romero zombies, and that's cool squared.

I love zombies, no matter what they do.

Great fucking news that this is going to be made. My question is, how different does this plot synopsis sound than Dead Reckoning. I admit that I don't know much about the plot for Dead Reckoning other than that Dead Reckoning was the name of the truck. Was there fortified cities and evolving zombies in that script, or did Romero basically come up with a new, or at least heavily tweaked story for Land of the Dead?

I'm pretty sure when it comes to evolved it'll be as in more intelligent. I don't think they'll sprout wings or survive a shot to the brain or anything.

I want this to kick so much ass when it comes out.

$15 million with Romeros geek fanbase is sure to turn a profit.

What makes me laugh is that, despite not producing a decent film outside of the Dead trilogy,
the guy's got such a following. Oh yeah he made the Dead trilogy, and that was the most important
things to happen to the horror genre. He deserves his place in history for that.

But let's face it, the rest of his work is pants. Bruiser? Creepshow? Come on, people.
If we are being honest with ourselves here, he produced three great pieces of horror
literature and then fizzled out. Why do so many of you assume he's still got it, when
nothing he has done of late has proved himself worthy?

I don't mind people loving the guy for his past achievements, he deserves props
for help shaping the genre. But clinging to hope that despite the pathetic output
he has spewed out recently is kinda being blind to the reality of the situation.

You've just got to face it. A lot of people think that Romero has produced good films outside of the Dead trilogy. There is also the fact that hope springs eternal in the heart of the horror fan. Even though Paul Anderson is at the helm, I’m still hoping that Alien vs. Predator is going to be good. Yeah, that might be clinging to a false hope. I guess we’re just an optimistic bunch. I do have my reservations about a forth Dead film, though. When was the last time that a forth entry in a series was any good? I just want George to pull it off and give us another great zombie movie.

Bride of Chucky

This feels like when Episode I was announced only on a really smaller scale.....

Look how that pile of turd turned out.

I'm not saying the film WILL be shit, but if people are honest with themselves, he hasn't
exactly stunned the world, or even made much of an impact at all, with his later films.

He gets a lot more leniency than most, when in fact, most of his films are pretty naff,
the dead ones aside. He deserves some slack, but this amount is insane.

Well fireflyfan, all we can do is wait and see and not go insane with speculation. i know that's hard because it's the internet but still, don't think it will be the most amazing astounding spectacular film ever. It'll be hard to outdo Dawn of the Dead.

Still it is very cool to have Romero style zombies in theatres next year. Can't wait

Marry me.

You may not think he's done a good film other than the Dead flicks, but as far as I'm concerned, Martin (along with Day) is his greatest film. An amazing character study if there ever was one.

I liked bruiser but I believe Dawn was his best movie, The character developement was the best in any horror movie to date even though I do like the Dawn '04 zombies more because the original dawn zombies basicly stood around and died but the '04 zombies gave more of a sense of urgency.

TAKE IT BACK, BRAD!!!

Day of the Dead is actually my favorite of Romero's Dead movies. I may be one of the only people that thought the series got better as it went along. And Creepshow is fucking awesome. It absolutely nailed the feeling of those great EC horror comics, as well as adding a little of King and Romero's strengths. A great anthology. And I did not think Bruiser was all that bad, so I certainly think Romero is not on the decline. Plus with him finally getting back to work I think all of his passion will go into this film. I don't think he has gone they way of Carpenter.

I liked Day for it's gore and story but for writing it was terible at times...especially those bad guys who just shout racist slurs every couple of minutes, it really got on my nerves and im not even who they're targetting

everything else was great though

"CHOKE ON 'EM!"

I thought The Crazies was quite good, if horrendously cheap. The picture/sound quality is cringeworthy.

Knightriders is a beautiful film, one of Romero's best Non Dead movie.

Also, Bruiser was awesome!



(well...kinda....but I like it!)


But Dawn of the Dead is still the reason why I get out of bed every morning.

Not any good (good, not brilliant, solid not masterful) ? Even uncharitably, "solid" is about the least you could label Romero career-wide. Then you remember:

The Dark Half - fine King adaptation
The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar from Two Evil Eyes
Martin - fantastic, intelligent, low budget suburban gothic
The Crazies - raw and powerful almost docu-drama...

Honestly, I would never think to put Romero on a favourite director's list on impulse -- favourite horror pictures maybe, but his style is spare and subtle so you forget how good he can be. But thinking about it now, there's barely a bad picture in his career -- a few of interesting and intelligent misfires (Season Of The Witch/There's Always Vanilla /Monkey Shines) and one Bruiser -- but apart from that, a TV series and an OJ Simpson doc, the three ...Dead pictures represent virtually a 1/4 of his output.

Jamie, it's quality not quantity -- which goes as much for a filmmaker's oeuvre as it does for CGI, cuts-per-second and insipid gothic touches peppering a "harmless piece of fun".