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A New Entry in Romero's Zombie Series is Coming

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I found this on Coming Soon.

ComingSoon:
Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh (The Fog remake), Kathleen Munroe (Durham County), Devon Bostick (Saw IV), Richard Fitzpatrick (Breach), Stefano Colacitti and Athena Karkanis (Saw IV) are starring in George Romero's untitled zombie film. Spring and Bostick each played roles in Romero's Land of the Dead, the former returned as another character in Diary of the Dead.

Romero began principal photography on the latest chapter in his undead saga this week.

According to Variety, the plot involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure.
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Sounds like it may be a partial sequel to Dawn of the Dead (the police officers in the original were heading to an island).
 
I've heard talk that it is (partially) a prequel, and that it might have:

Bub from Day of the Dead before he died.
 
^ I wouldn't mind it.

Originally it was to follow Tracy and the events of Diary of the Dead.
 
I love zombie flicks, so I'll see it. Lots of fans say Romero has lost his touch, and I agree with some of that, but his newer films have been entertaining for me none the less. I've certainly seen worse zombie movies.

Now.....when is Peter Jackson going to make another Braindead?:)


oddly enough, I'm watching NOTLD right now......
 
Perhaps a sequel could build upon the hints in Land that the zombies were getting their intelligence back. If a future film had *every* character as a zombie, for example.
 
^ Romero did say he considered doing a film at some point where every human was dead, but that it'd only be a short film.
 
I loved Diary of the Dead, despite all its flaws, so I look forward to this. I wonder where the layer of social commentary is going to come from in this one, though? Dawn is about consumerism, Day is about 80s government, Land is about the war on terror, Diary is about the youtube/mass media culture...what will this one be about?

I realize I've left out Night, which I judge as a movie about race, but Romero has stated this was unintentional.
 
Didn't the original plague come from a satellite that crashed into Earth or something? Or was that just idle speculation in Night during the television broadcasts?
 
Harvey said:
Didn't the original plague come from a satellite that crashed into Earth or something? Or was that just idle speculation in Night during the television broadcasts?
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It was only one scientist who suggested that. They weren't certain that was the case.

In 2004 DOTD, the back of the DVD case said it was a virus. And given how the plague spread in that version (only by biting - not all deaths resulted in zombism), I'm inclined to believe it.

Besides, which is likely to last longer: radiation from a space probe that explodes once and that's it, or a virus that can be continually transmitted?
 
Romero Series (including Night 1990, Shaun of the Dead): The cause unknown.
Return of the Living Dead: Trioxin 245
Resident Evil (Romero): T-Virus infection
Dawn2004: Never said in the movie, description claims it to be a virus.
Night2007: Voodoo
Day2008: Virus
 
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