LAnd of the DEAD

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Romero Set for Land of the Dead
Source: Variety
Thursday, July 15, 2004


George Romero is set to direct Land of the Dead, a horror film that picks up on the zombie saga he hatched with Night of the Living Dead and continued with Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. Variety says the film, from Romero's own script, will begin production in October in Winnipeg or Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was the site of shooting for Romero's original 1968 zombie trilogy.

In the film, the zombies having taken over the world and those left alive are confined to a walled-in city that keeps out the corpse corps. Anarchy rules the streets, with the wealthy insulated and living in fortified skyscrapers.

The drama revolves around a group of scavengers who must thwart an attempt to overthrow the city while the dead are evolving from brainless slow-moving creatures into more advanced creatures.

Romero had been developing Diamond Dead, a black comedy musical that's being produced by Scott Free and Andrew Gaty, and he also scripted an adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which he may direct for Canadian financier Don Archibald and Lions Gate.
 
Diamond Dead has a much better (read: original, non cashing in on the success or recent remakes) story and better people involved in it. Now they're pushing it back for this and it makes me sad.
 
Ragamuffin said:
Diamond Dead has a much better (read: original, non cashing in on the success or recent remakes) story and better people involved in it. Now they're pushing it back for this and it makes me sad.
But its a "black comedy musical? I mean really, can that work?
 
From the Dawn of the Dead commentary, Romero says he had the idea for this film for awhile, but nobody wold give him the funding for it. It looks like the studios are cashing in on him, not the other way around. Romero rules!