July 15, 2004
Romero Raises New Dead Film
George Romero is set to direct Land of the Dead, a horror film that picks up the zombie saga that began in Romero's original Night of the Living Dead and continued with Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, Variety reported. Based on Romero's own script, the movie will begin production in October in Winnipeg, Manitoba, or Pittsburgh, Pa., the site of shooting for Romero's original 1968 zombie trilogy.
In Land of the Dead, the zombies having taken over the world, and those left alive are confined to a walled-in city that keeps out the corpses. Anarchy rules the streets, with the wealthy insulated and living in fortified skyscrapers, and the movie 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, the trade paper reported.
Atmosphere chairman and chief executive Mark Canton and president Bernie Goldmann will produce, along with Romero's partner, Peter Grunwald, of Romero Grunwald Productions.
Posted by MK Magazine at July 15, 2004 12:52 PM