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Full Cast and Plot Details For Romero's Next Zombie Adventure!
Friday, October 3, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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We broke the news early last week that George A. Romero was hard at work prepping his next zombie movie, which we discovered isn't a sequel to DIARY OF THE DEAD like they had originally announced. Instead, various sites reported that the new film would take viewers onto an island and feature underwater zombies (yummy!). This evening something official has finally hit the web on the film rumored to be working under the title of Island of the Dead, all of which can be found inside (finally, some answers).

Director George Romero is beginning production on an untitled thriller. Once again, the antagonists are flesh-eating zombies, reports Variety.

Romero first mined zombies with "Night of the Living Dead" and has been cannibalizing the genre since, most recently with "Diary of the Dead."

Romero wrote the new film and began shooting this week in Ontario.

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.

Cast includes Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti and Athena Karkanis.

Paula Devonshire is producing. Romero is exec producer along with Peter Grunwald, D.J. Carson and Artfire Films' Ara Katz, Art Spigel and Dan Fireman. Voltage Pictures is handling international sales, and Cinetic Media will sell domestic.

Source: Variety

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Static
1:06am, October 3, 2008

Sounds good to me!


Hutch20
1:58am, October 3, 2008

I think it will help people to not be hesitant to see a sequel right away it will allow people to get a flesh-new zombie adventure and it take away from all the complaning on how diary of the dead was filmed which I loved. I don't think he has just thrown diary of the dead sequel away just give everyone something new and different so he can come back to the Diary of the Dead Sequel. I'm looking forward to anything he has to throw at me. Bring it on Romero!


Kaname Tousen
2:06am, October 3, 2008

....waiting for trailer


Caligari_Nosferatu
3:03am, October 3, 2008

Oh man, this seems like it's shaping up to be REALLY great.


Zombie Hell
3:49am, October 3, 2008

This could be awesome. I'm always open to a new Romero zombie flick.


djblack1313
5:02am, October 3, 2008

this sounds like it could be one of Romero's best (IMO). i LOVE the Island setting. it could make for a creepy and scary trap for the humans stuck on it when the dead come for them! COOOOLL!!


the violent one
6:28am, October 3, 2008

love this in a world of remake and half ass productions you can always count on romero getting things right he is the zombie king can what for shots of the make up work this time around


dawnkatdead
8:54am, October 3, 2008

SWEET!!!!!


zombiefan09
9:09am, October 3, 2008

I was hoping he'd call it 'Island of the Dead' and I got my wish!!!


Nightmare
9:17am, October 3, 2008

After the shitty Land of the Dead, and the average Diary of the Dead, am I the only one that wishes Romero would call it quits? Or at least do a horror movie NOT about zombies?


BloodyCape
9:20am, October 3, 2008

again with the zombies!


horrorchick81
9:28am, October 3, 2008

sounds good to me!


CinemaSuicide
10:49am, October 3, 2008

Hey, Nightmare, I'm with you. I think George has lost the touch. His masterpieces are absolute peaks of the genre but the last 15 years haven't been kind to George or the fans. I'm not holding my breath. Diary of the Dead was really, really awful.


BloodySatan
11:18am, October 3, 2008

More zombies? Can't Romero think of anything else?


TheDeadMayTasteBad
11:45am, October 3, 2008

I agree with Nightmare and CinemaSuicide, Romero isn't working the same magic he used to. "Diary..." and "Land..." were both stale and bad. Romero lacks is genius subtly that made his first few zombie movies ("Night...", "Dawn...", "Day...") genius. Land and Diary both had promising ideas, but neither came even close to my hopes for them. I'd love to see Romero try his hand at something original in the horror genre while he's still kicking, but it looks like that won't happen anytime soon.


disanti
1:34pm, October 3, 2008

You think after all this time....they'd pretty much assume there is no cure and the best thing is to just kill them haha. BUUUTT if they thought like that there would be no more zombie movies.


elbastardo1b
1:41pm, October 3, 2008

" Monkey Shines " Nuf said...


djdeathwish
2:41pm, October 3, 2008

The synopsis sounds a lot like that one Stephen King short story whose name escapes me right now.


Zombster1369
3:37pm, October 3, 2008

Sounds good to me. Land wasn't very good, Romero does better with a small budget. I for one enjoyed Diary and Island is shaping up to be good, too. I wonder if it'll be released DTV on Dimension Extreme like Diary was.


andres_gnr
4:05pm, October 3, 2008

love the island concept!!! it has been used alot but romero is romero!!


StubS
4:06pm, October 3, 2008

I love land, and diary just as much as the first 3, can't wait for this.


turtlenipple
5:19pm, October 3, 2008

I reeeally despised diary of the dead, but loved everything before then.. I think he'll do Island right and I'm stoked to see what develops


Nave316
5:47pm, October 3, 2008

I think that it is about time for Romero to make his own "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" for his Living Dead series. Imagine, if you will, a movie where the remaining survivors of Dawn, Day, Night, Land and the other Romero films came together to fight for their lives and survive against the continuing Zombie onslaught. I think it could be cool at least. But this sounds like it is gonna kick major ass. From the sounds of it it will restore the feel of the human conflict and social issues present in the past Dead movies.


xxxwolf666
7:16pm, October 3, 2008

Love Night, Dawn, and Day but Land, while inspired, lacked something. I thought Diary was pretty bad. I didn't mind the "raw footage" aspect but the acting was horrible and the dialoge was worse. I hope George realized that and finds actors who can actually act and not ones that are cheap.


Hutch20
3:27am, October 4, 2008

Diary of the Dead was amazing. The idea and plot were good. I enjoyed how he put you into the characters shoes. I for one hope he does a Diary Sequel. and to those of you that don't like Diary I'm sure you just dont like that syle of filming or you might have liked it better. Don't say if he quits there will be no more zombie films, I am going to college for film and i have a Zombie Film in mind, I'm going to start writing the screen play really soon. If you want to know the title message me I'm not going to put it on here. I also got 20 other non-zombie ideas too.


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