We first reported that George A. Romero was at work on a sequel to last year’s ‘Diary of the Dead’ here. Well, we’ve come across more info regarding the upcoming film over at Shlock Around The Clock, from Romero himself.
It’ll be about three weeks in (past the outbreak) and it doesn’t start with the people in the mansion (at the end of Diary). It starts with the blonde who drove away and the national guardsmen who robbed the people. So those are the only characters that return. What it’s about is tribalism. How the internet creates a Hatfields and McCoys situation. It’s on an island, where people have been lured by someone on the net as a safe haven, but really what these guys are trying to do is hold them up at the docks. I don’t know if it’s goin to be made. The script is in, so we’ll see what happens.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIs there any chance this will take a different direction than Diary? If not I don’t know if I have the patience to sit through another political scolding using the movie as a platform for Romero to yell out his beliefs without using the art form that he has mastered and perfected many times before. I expect more from Romero and just don’t want to be dissapointed again.
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