New Dead movie coming

[Soundwave]

Well looks like Romero hasnt laid the Dead to rest just yet :grin: :grin: :grin:

Apparently according to Fangoria there is nother movie in the Dead saga to come calle "Diary of the Dead"

Romero will right & direct the independent project that is due to start shooting on October 11th in Toronto.

Cant wait to see this beasty, will be good seeing as he's going back to his Independent routes & wont have to bow down to major studio pressures.

Original article is Here (http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=2562)

Neil

[quarry2006]

Gotta say, Diary of The Dead is the most broing title for a horror movie I've ever heard.

[MrFurious]

glad he is going to do it indie, can actually do what he wants instead of having to listen to the bigwigs at studio level.

[funcky]

Well being a big zombie fan thats good news, there just aint enough new zombie flicks nowadays. However Land of the Dead was disappointing, and the new title Diary of the Dead sounds like zombies maybe getting smarter again, lol. So what are we gonna see, zombies keeping journals on their daily activities, writing a good food guide maybe?:grin:

[Conn]

Dairy of the dead would be better.

Mooooo :devil:

[Steve.EX]

Diary Keeping Dairy Men Dead would surely be better?

[Brother]

http://movies.aol.com/news/articles/_a/horror-vet-romero-returns-to-dead-zone/20060825101709990001?ncid=AOLMOV00150000000007

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.

Didn't like land of the dead - hope for better with this being independent.

[pRot3us]

I liked Land, the arc between it and the previous films worked, but you could tell there was too much studio influence and I would have prefered Savini to have done the make-up effects.

I'm looking forward to this new Romero film, but from the sound of it its definately not part of the 'Dead' series,they have all looked at trapped or imprisoned humans (whether by circumstance or choice) and each one has been set slightly further in the future than the previous film.

I'm not sure what the full plot will be in this one but its obviously a departure, thematically and chronologically.

:smoke:

[darklight]

http://movies.aol.com/news/articles/_a/horror-vet-romero-returns-to-dead-zone/20060825101709990001?ncid=AOLMOV00150000000007

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.

Didn't like land of the dead - hope for better with this being independent.


Stupid American college students running around with a camera and getting killed. Sounds great..NOT...

[Brother]

It doesn't sound that good. Having said that 'night' wasn't that far off this.

[darklight]

It doesn't sound that good. Having said that 'night' wasn't that far off this.


Have you actually seen Night of the Living Dead??? The only reason I ask is because of that last statement.

[Brother]

Well I suppose not that close - just from the point of view of being isolated and eventually trapped in a house in the middle of nowhere (a parallel ish between night and blair witch).

I guess its hard to see where the new movie will end up.

[Will18]

Gotta say, Diary of The Dead is the most broing title for a horror movie I've ever heard.

Couldn't agree more, OMG Diary of the Dead ?!? :boring:

[Mr.D]

I doubt this will get made . Romero made it quite obvious with "Land" that his best days as a film maker are well behind him.

Hope that 28 weeks later is the next decent zombie movie: although I'd like to see them continue from the Dawn of the Dead remake which was surprisingly good.

"I am Legend" whcih is arguably the origin of the whole undead apocalypse genre has been doing the rounds in various script from for years, and there is always the possibiliyt Stephen King's last novel "Cell" could get turned into a movie and its pretty much classic zombie material.

[Brother]

Here is the script review from aintitcool:

I managed to get my hands on the "Dairy of the Dead" script and my inner geek was doing back-flips, my outer geek tried to remain calm but screw him. Anyway, to be clear, I'm a big Romero fan but my faith had been shaken by Land Of The Dead. Then, after reading your and Harry's IM chat, my heart sank. It seemed a weak idea, cheap and beneath George. A.
So is it that bad? No it is not, in fact, half way through reading the script I started wishing that this had been the film he'd made instead of LOTD. To clear a few things up, The film takes place outside of the Night, Dawn, Day and Land chronology. We see the dead start to rise much like the Dawn remake. It's present day and there's no explanation. The students are shooting a Mummy film in the woods and it takes up about 3 scenes. When they pick up news reports on the radio they abandon the film and head home or back to their dorms. There's some nice jokes about slow or fast moving Mummy's during the filming scenes. One student, ambitious film-maker Jason Creed, keeps filming as a documentary much to the others disgust. The film then becomes a standard Zombie apocalypse story as the group, split and one faction make their way back to Jason's girlfriend's house.
The handheld camera style is really a stylistic device so it doesn't come over as cheap as it sounds. The action takes place on the road and in many locations and for some of the shocks, think of the night-vision first look at the troglodyte in "The Descent" i.e disorienting and unexpected, it adds to their effectiveness. All the traditional ways for a filmmaker to technically build suspense aren't available with this style so the zombies appear almost out of nowhere. With the glut of Zombie films we're faced with, this approach seems fresh and not as dated as I first feared.
There are parts of the story that seem odd, an, African, American, guerilla army pop up in the middle section and when Jason posts the footage onto his My Space page he gets a million hits in an hour. The Dead Walk and everyone turns to My Space for answers? There's also an alcoholic, English character that rivals Day of the Dead's drunken Irish man for cringe inducing dialogue but it's basically a Zombie road movie with the sort of imagery Land was missing. We get to see Amish zombies, golfer zombies, burnt zombie cops and a character keeping the rest of his undead family, in the deep end of the swimming pool, underwater, because he doesn't know what to do with them.