News from Romero: more zombies?

by Martha Fischer Nov 28th 2005 // 11:32PM

Filed under: Horror, Thrillers, RumorMonger, Fandom, Newsstand

Apparently the (relative) success that Land of the Dead had abroad has director George A. Romero revising his earlier assumption that his zombie series was at an end. According to Romero, a possible fifth Dead film would take place immediately after Land, and would follow our heroes on their journey north. (Is it just wishful thinking to assume this means the return of Simon Baker?)

The chances of this sequel happening (Romero says "there's a real buzz" about it) are so great that his twin Stephen King adaptations are potentially on hold because of the zombies. The director himself was involved with the screenplays for both From A Buick 8 and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, though even he doesn't know what's actually next for him. It's safe to say, though, that sometime soon he will start work on more zombies, an alien car, or a Red Sox fan. Details will be passed along as soon as they arrive, particularly if Simon Baker is involved.

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11-29-2005 @ 12:29PM

MosquitoControl said...

Good god no!

I grew up an enormous zombie/Romero fan, but LOTD was simply one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Run, George, Run while you still have some dignity!

11-29-2005 @ 10:34PM

josh said...

I hope this is true, Simon Baker was excellent in LOTD, which was a fun little movie, especially the unrated version.

11-29-2005 @ 3:07PM

Finished.Law.School said...

There can never be enough zombie movies.

11-29-2005 @ 10:33PM

jer said...

I completely agree that Land of the Dead was really craptastically bad. The Dead films have long been my favorite films, (even Day of the Dead, and that one was the stinkiest of all the old school Romero films) but damn, was I disappointed.

Skyflowers? Stenches? What the hell was he thinking?

11-29-2005 @ 10:40PM

josh said...

"even Day of the Dead, and that one was the stinkiest of all the old school Romero films"

I guess by "old school", you don't mean his non-Dead independent work like The Crazies or Season Of The Witch... both of those are far worse than "Day". As is Martin, also.

Honestly, Romero is not the world's greatest writer. Have you seen Bruiser, his last film pre-Land? Decently directed, good concept, but just a bad script (unfortunately). And to be frank, the scripts for Night, Dawn and Day are just full of bad lines and iffy concepts as are any of his films - those films were just more unique at the time than Land is now.

That said, I enjoyed Land, it was fun and had enough interesting ideas on what it would be like to actually live in a world overrun with zombies that I found it worthwhile.

12-01-2005 @ 2:26AM

jer said...

For Josh:

Yeh, I actually meant "old school dead" films.

I agree about the dialog in his movies, I guess I just remember the joy of watching all these people who hate eachother being forced to work together or die in those Dead films.

I liked Bruiser quite a bit, but I know what you're getting at. It really could have been much better.

I recently saw Monkey Shines for the first time, and really enjoyed it. I didn't so much care for the strange psychic connection stuff, but George really made me care about that damn monkey. I don't really remember the dialog as being particularly bad or good, but I thought it was pretty enjoyable.

With Land, I just wanted it to be over. It made me really sad to find out that the crappy remake of Dawn was hands down better than Land was. (By crappy, I mean that's what I was expecting from it, not how I perceived it. I loved the remake of Dawn, to the point that I would almost say I prefer it. Eh.)