Fans
of the original Day of the Dead have had a rough decade. Starting
with 2005’s Day of the Dead 2: Contagium and ending with 2008’s Mena
Suvari/Ving Rhames shitfest
Day of the Dead,
it was quite hard to see our loved film treated so poorly, by people
who were clearly just trying to make a quick buck with a cheap zombie
film.
But
it’s not over yet.
According to Variety, producer James
Dudelson of one of the worst studios in the business, Taurus
Entertainment, is working on yet another remake of Day of the
Dead, this time in 3D. If you
think I’m being hard on them, well, I am. But this is a studio whose
output would have been utterly
dismissible
until they started putting out sequels to Romero films that didn’t show
an ounce of love towards the source material, like the aforementioned Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
and Creepshow III.
According
to Dudelson, buyers have been asking for 3D conversions of 2D films
because “3D works well for certain genres, like horror.” But,
he cautioned, “You
can’t just slap a 3D conversion on the wrong type
of film.”
Like
the inevitably crappy low-budget remake of a classic film? Exactly.
11 comments
I assumed the picture was a joke-picture until I got down to the bottom of the article. That thing's really real?
Is that Obama in that pic? How apropos since he is infecting this country with Greece levels of economic mismanagement.
The real zombie plague. Poor connective tissue. Poor cognitive processes. Cannibalistic. Smelly.
I refuse to sit here and have the distributor of Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College be bad mouthed in such a way. For shame sir!
This is no more painful than Romero's constant churning out of the same broken drivel.
I avoided the Mena Suvari DoD remake like well, the plague, but had no idea it was the SECOND one. The remake of NOTLD with Tony Todd was pretty good and the remake of DAWN was almost, ALMOST, as good as anything Romero put out. The opening credits over the fantastic "The Man Comes Around" by Cash blew my mind. While it lacked the satire of the original it is one of the, only?, remakes that can stand next to the original. Plus it ended with a Jim Carrol song. I was never sure why Zach Snyder never followed up Dawn with a remake of Day. I'd see his version but as it stands I won't see any others.
Dudelson gotta eat.
2, you should probably just leave comedy to the more capable people, like Dudelson.
There is no God.
Hey # 2, no Bush wars, no economic issues. Obama is cleaning up the biggest mess ever. The real zombies are the people who followed Bush, Co. for 8 years without question.
Who cares? Romero hasn't made a good/watchable movie since "Night"… I never bought into the hype with the trash he made after the first one.
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