The father of the Zombie Movies, George A. Romero, is apparantly hard at work on his next film. This time he will be using mostly...Zombies!The currently untitled film is in pre-production up in Toronto and should start shooting soon. Apparently this is not a sequel to Diary of the Dead, which was a bit disappointing. Bloody Disgusting state that it is a "quasi-sequel" that will take place on an island. Romero is now on his fifth zombie film and the early details on this sound like it might be at least better than Diary of the Dead.
Romero revealed the following to SchlockAroundTheClock:
“It’ll be about three weeks in [past the outbreak] and it doesn’t start with the people in the mansion [at the end of Diary]. 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.”
Movieset spoke with Nicolas Chartier, the president of Voltage Pictures, who joked that while the film is yet to be officially titled, it is being referred internally as “Something of the Dead."
“We’re shooting underwater zombies,” Chartier revealed. “They’re swimming, grabbing people’s legs, pulling them down. It’s a lot of fun.”
I read somewhere a while ago of a video game that was going to be set on a tropical island resort where zombies attacked. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? What was it called? What do you think of Romero's latest news then? Did you enjoy Diary of the Dead?
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