The boys over at Dread Central are reporting that George A. Romero is set to direct Diary of the Dead 2 this September. The website "learned that George has to attend several meetings about DIARY 2 which have the project significantly hitting the fast track. So significantly that we got the word it's 99.9% a go for the film to start production this September..." Our heroes, trapped in the mansion where we left them, battle waves of ravenous zombies, barely escaping alive. In search of a safe place to settle, they commandeer an abandoned ferry and sail to a deserted island, only to find that it is already populated by a civilization of the dead. The next episode of the saga is a violent siege set in the middle of nowhere, a desperate struggle for survival, and peace, between two tribes: the living and the living dead.
It took a few viewings before I began to appreciate the first Diary. But I kinda hope they drop the hand held camera thing for this one. They documented enough in the first movie, let's just drop that aspect for the second one.
isn't what happened in the dawn of the dead remake the sailed away to an island and it was full of zombies??? haven't seen the first diary, in all respect am I missing out, not trying to be sarcastic, am I really missing out by not seeing it?
I don't understand why there needs to be a sequeal to Diary??? It ended with the opertunity to have one but left you hoping it wouldn't!!! ROMERO was once upon a time a force to be reconed with in the horror genre but after DIARY and even LAND in some ways I'm left feeling he's no longer in his directing prime. Everything about DIARY was over done, from the useual ROMERO political mish mash of goverment bashing it was too much, it was just over whelmingly BAD!!! I concider myself to be the biggest ROMERO fan but after his last few picture I'm left wondering if he has a severe form of dementia brought on by old age?? I love the man for everything he was but dispise him for what he has become... a mere shadow of hiself!!! I'm not looking forward to DIARY 2 at all I will NOT watch this movie, I can only hope it's not as disapointing as the first one was, we don't need a hole new generation of horror fans turning on ROMERO'S films due to the bad apples of his later years!!!
j34ngr4y . . . I can't agree more. why is this being made? the first one was really bad. REALLY bad. Bad acting. predictable script. chiched dialogue and characters. the movie pretended to explore ideas that it really didn't. without the wretched narration telling you that there's social commentary, you wouldn't have known it. There's no inventiveness i the movie whatsoever. Everything here has been done before and better. much better. but hey. we get a sequel to it.
If they drop the hand held camera thing, I think it's going to be something to look forward to. I mean, who needs a sequel done exactly the same way the original Diary was done, right?
i wonder if they'll end up finding the guys from the end of the dawn of the dead remake there... haha, that'd be an interesting tie-in since it's pretty much the same idea of what happened at the end of it. either find them somehow survived, or both end up there at the same time, or they find their mutilated bodies or them as zombies themselves as a throwback. but they'd have ta get the actors back. i think it'd be a pretty sweet tie-in. what you guys think??
No, you really aren't missing out. Romero lacks all the subtle touches and genius of his early days. Both "Land" and, to a larger extent, "Diary" suffer from being too "in-your-face" with their themes. The virtually grab your neck and rub your face in it. Not only that, but "Diary" had absolutely nothing new to bring to the table. Many production elements were annoying, including some very quickly put together CGI blood for many scenes which I found somewhat distracting from the experience. Romero has simply lost his touch, there is no more shock and awe in his projects. Honestly, I was hoping for a good outcome since Romero had complete creative freedom over "Diary", but I sadly was disappointed to find he has lost much of his creative genius. The man himself still couldn't be cooler, but I think he has had his run with these films and surpassed his prime.
I for one can't wait for this to be released! It did take a few viewings for me to appreciate "Diary" but now I love it. Wasn't George talking about re-introducing the character of "Bub" in one of his next films? This could be very interesting. Let's just hope he goes the independent route again!
i didn't care for Diary either. the lead girl's acting was godawful (even for a Romero film!) and if i heard 1 more time that "if it's not on film, it doesn't exist" preachy sermon, i was going to scream (and not in a good way! LOL). but i will say, prt 2 could be halfway decent if he increases the zombie action (prt 1 hardly had ANY (IMO) zombie stuff going on). i agree w/ above posts, go back to the standard way of filming this movie. the handheld think is tired now.
I really enjoyed the first one so i hope they dont mess up this one cause there's been alot of zombie movies which were retarded but this one is one of the best.
Diary was pretty good and pulled off the handheld thing way better than cloverfield. It wasn't a master piece, but I left the theatre content. I'll go see a sequel.
Best news in quite a while.I liked Diary a lot. So what if it wasn't on par with Night or Dawn-what is? I think we're better off having the guy who invented the genre still having the passion about it to still be cranking them out 40 years later than to worry about the necessity of this sequel. Besides, none of the previous entries have been true sequels, so this will actually be the first real storyline continuation. Give the man a chance!
I also hope this isn't a handheld filmed movie. It wasn't very believable in the first one. If they would have dropped that perspective I think the film would have been much better.
I sincerely hope that the "lets reintroduce Bub" thing isn't true, since this continuity is separate from the first 3 (maybe 4) but my point is this is a retelling of the rise of the dead in the present day, where as bub was a zombie in the 80's and there's no telling how long he'd been a zombie. I mean, the first Night is in 1968. No hand held camera's then. Putting Bub in wouldn't make sense.
Diary was absolutely horrible. I can't stress that enough. Absolute, complete garbage. The acting was horrible, the writing was horrible, the zombies were laughable. If this wasn't made by George Romero, it would be thrown in to the same pile of DTV crap as NOTLD3D and the Day of the Dead remake. I honestly hope there isn't a sequel, just so George doesn't embarass himself further.
I thought dairy of the dead was better than exspected. i don't like the handheld camera films to much but i did like this one. but i would like to see the second dairy movie without the handheld camera. wasn't too keen on land of the dead, making zombies communicate spoilt the film. we want our zombie's to be dumb ass flesh eater's.
sure there's a lot of horror sequels, but it's a fairer statement to say that "entertainment" is all about sequels. Scary sequels are the exception rather than the rule, and maybe I'm asking too much, but I want my horror movies to be scary.
I still have to see diary (still hasn't been released over here), but I am actually wondering why Romero would do a sequel to this one but never with the other ones (since they're all quite separate). anyway bring on some more romero madness. I do hope he'll do something like creepshow or Two Evil Eyes next or maybe DiamondDead is the perfect place to mix those two styles.
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Diary of the Dead 2
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