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BEHOLD!

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/georgea ... edead.html



That trailer was awesome! This is going to fucking kick ass. Here's to Romero outdoing himself once again!

So yestersday we told you about the LAND OF THE DEAD trailer over at Yahoo Movies. It looks super sweet and I can't imagine any genre fan not being psyched about it. And now comes news from George Romero's official site that should result in reactions ranging from joy to full on rapture.

Chris Romero confirms in the website journal (which needs to be redesigned btw - what a pain in the ass to read!) that if the movie does well there is a good chance that there will be another one. Not a huge surprise from the studio standpoint, but it's great to get some verification that George Romero has the interest too. One can only imagine what he'll come up with next!

So do your duty and check out that sumbitch on June 24th, when once again, the dead walk the earth.

I think it would be really cool if Romero would (with a gaming team, of course) develop a video game adaptation of Night-Land.

IGN writes:

"George A. Romero has made a career out of scaring the pantaloons off moviegoers while giving them a chance to laugh -- and think a little -- in the process. Now, Romero's unique, zombie-filled take on horror will get a videogame treatment, as Hip Interactive announces an agreement with Living Dead Productions to produce a series of George A. Romero-branded games.

Details have yet to be revealed, but the games, expected for "all current and upcoming platforms," would almost certainly be based on Romero classics such as Night of the Living Dead and the original Dawn of the Dead. Hip expects to announce the first title soon.

"Horror fans have been searching for the ultimate experience in gaming, and we intend to deliver it to them with the tremendous creative input of legendary director, George A. Romero, and Living Dead Productions," said Arindra Singh, President and CEO of Hip Interactive.

"This is a fantastic opportunity to share George's work and ideas with the game buying public," said Simon Bailey, Managing Director of Living Dead Productions. "We are very impressed with the quality of work that Hip will bring to the games. George's fans and gamers alike will not be disappointed!"

Ask and ye shall receive:

You wrote the first draft of Land of the Dead under the title Dead Reckoning in the pre-9/11 days. What did you change in the post-9/11 era?

In the wake of that national tragedy, everybody wanted to make warm, fuzzy, comfort movies. But what cultural pundits and industry analysts grossly misjudged was the kind of escapist fare audiences would also want, and that was a good scare. In common with my aborted vampire picture The Ill, the first Land drafts were more of an AIDS allegory than anything else, but it was still about ignoring a social problem. Then I made it more political, more about what was turning into America’s ‘new normal’. You know a government that had felt it was protected by water. My script is about a city that’s protected on all sides by rivers, and they are able to defend it by putting a barricade along the base of the triangle and try and carry on. The folly being the ‘new normal’ is not really normal at all. Is the fortified city of opportunists making money out of being surrounded by zombies an allegory for America living with terrorism and trying to keep the threat at bay? That isn’t exactly what my story is about because here the whole world knows the dead have come back to life. This particular group in the Fiddler’s Green enclave led by Kaufman (Hopper) has tried to set up a society that ignores the fundamental problem. So you can sort of call the people in the city ‘Bush America’, living around the problem, almost profiting from it.

So does Kaufman = George W. Bush?

Yes, in my own mind. It’s as simple as that. Land of the Dead is not really about the zombies as they are just sort of walking through all of this. It’s about the humans, their attitudes, the same theme of people not communicating, things falling apart internally, not dealing with issues. Everybody is still working to their own agendas, not willing to give up life as it was, as they wanted it to be. That’s sort of the overall theme that runs all the way through it. And this has more of that concept than anything in the past trilogy; the idea of trying to build a society on glass, and not caring about what’s going on, like a blind man wearing blinkers to the problem.

A segmet from an interview with Romero...



Now it's an anti-Bush movie too!

My prediction: best film of 2005.

A segmet from an interview with Romero...



Now it's an anti-Bush movie too!

My prediction: best film of 2005.