Poll: Romero's Next Zombie Romp

[Wayward Sean]

George A. Romero is the father of zombie movies and actually created the whole genre. He is working on his sixth zombie movie called Survival of the Dead, following his other five: Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead, and Diary of the Dead. The first three films have had remakes recently. From Night of the Living Dead to Land of the Dead, the zombies followed a story arc where they rise from the minority to the majority of the population. Instead of finishing the storyline, Diary of the Dead rebooted the franchise to take place at the same time as Night of the Living Dead. I assume Survival takes place at the same time as Dawn.

My question is, where do you think the franchise should go from here? Should Romero quit while he's ahead? Should he finish the story arc and have either the zombies kill all humans, or have humans kill all zombies? Should they continue with more remakes like for Land of the Dead? Should they make a direct sequel to one, like a second Diary of the Dead and continue with the hand-camera style? Or should he go in a completely different direction?

 

[eatenbyagrue]

He should stop. I respect the man, and love zombie films in general, but he really needs to stop letting them do Remake of the Dead, if only because nobody seems to do anything but make remakes or sequels these days.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

he's done Survival of the Dead, it's being shown at the Toronto Film Festival in a couple weeks

he actually lives in Canada now, somewhere in Toronto

 

[Skeleon]

I'd like to know how many other humans are left after Land of the Dead and how much further the "evolving zombies" can go, so maybe a sequel to that... ("Planet of the Dead" in your poll)?

Heh, maybe even a movie where the protagonists are intelligent zombies and the living humans are just an odd relic of the past, kept in zoos with the world being rebuilt by the undead community? That'd be funny.

Otherwise, no, we don't need any more remakes or sidestories.
If he doesn't want to continue the storyline (and I'm not sure how he could), he should stop altogether.

 

[Wildrow12]

I'd like to know how many other humans are left after Land of the Dead and how much further the "evolving zombies" can go, so maybe a sequel to that... ("Planet of the Dead" in your poll)?

Heh, maybe even a movie where the protagonists are intelligent zombies and the living humans are just an odd relic of the past, kept in zoos with the world being rebuilt by the undead community? That'd be funny.

That is the most awesome idea for a movie I've heard in awhile! DO IT!

 

[Skeleon]

That is the most awesome idea for a movie I've heard in awhile! DO IT!

Heh, thanks. Too bad I'm not a filmmaker.

I could even imagine the community somewhat. Couples would go to a government institution to receive children (i.e., cloned or cultured humans, infected with the zombie virus) and part of "growing up" and the education would be to teach them how to behave civilized. Since they'd be infected using syringes, the future zombies'd not look as gruesome as the ones from today's films (no bite-marks or severe injuries). Every zombie'd technically be immortal, though, so there'd have to be some kind of population limit, reminiscent of Logan's Run.
Living humans'd be regarded as "distant cousins" when seen in the zoos, kind of like chimps today. The fact that new members of society are actually grown from humans, however, is a well kept secret. And the origin of "children" is much speculated about by the populace.

 

[Wildrow12]

That is the most awesome idea for a movie I've heard in awhile! DO IT!

Heh, thanks. Too bad I'm not a filmmaker.

I could even imagine the community somewhat. Couples would go to a government institution to receive children (i.e., cloned or cultured humans, infected with the zombie virus) and part of "growing up" and the education would be to teach them how to behave civilized. Since they'd be infected using syringes, the future zombies'd not look as gruesome as the ones from today's films (no bite-marks or severe injuries). Every zombie'd technically be immortal, though, so there'd have to be some kind of population limit, reminiscent of Logan's Run.
Living humans'd be regarded as "distant cousins" when seen in the zoos, kind of like chimps today. The fact that new members of society are actually grown from humans, however, is a well kept secret. And the origin of "children" is much speculated about by the populace.

Who says you have to film it? You could just do the screenplay and let someone else handle the whys and wherefores.

Besides, in the era of internet distributed short films, I'm more than certain that you could achieve alot just with your average digital cam.

 

[Wayward Sean]

That is the most awesome idea for a movie I've heard in awhile! DO IT!

Heh, thanks. Too bad I'm not a filmmaker.

I could even imagine the community somewhat. Couples would go to a government institution to receive children (i.e., cloned or cultured humans, infected with the zombie virus) and part of "growing up" and the education would be to teach them how to behave civilized. Since they'd be infected using syringes, the future zombies'd not look as gruesome as the ones from today's films (no bite-marks or severe injuries). Every zombie'd technically be immortal, though, so there'd have to be some kind of population limit, reminiscent of Logan's Run.
Living humans'd be regarded as "distant cousins" when seen in the zoos, kind of like chimps today. The fact that new members of society are actually grown from humans, however, is a well kept secret. And the origin of "children" is much speculated about by the populace.

That is an excellent idea that kind of mixes zombies with sci-fi, for a Logan's Run/Planet of the Apes/Matrix/The Giver sort of post-apocalyptic dystopia that's dripping with satire.

 

[Proteus214]

Romero's run is over. I'm not sure how much more he could milk the zombie apocalypse.

The zombies won and the humans lost because of their own petty squabbles. We get it.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I'd like to know how many other humans are left after Land of the Dead and how much further the "evolving zombies" can go, so maybe a sequel to that... ("Planet of the Dead" in your poll)?

he kinda restarted the series with Diary of the Dead

 

[Redd]

The man is my all time Idol of zombie horror, but yeah. It's time to stop beating the dead horse. Remake after remake, fizzle after fizzle. It's just becoming I don't know..stale. If he does another movie he needs to go back to his origins. Not a remake, but a show of how his talents were small in Night of the Living Dead. That movie scared the Bajesus out of me. There were no special effects really, all the zombies looked like they had just..I don't know..up and became zombies. Not like the already half rotted away things they call zombies now a day.

That's what he should do. Retrace his roots, back to the drawing board on some of his movies, and come out with a better movie.

After saying that..all I can do now is sit back and gush over my zombie collection.

 

[Ben7]

Theres a remake of Romero's Crazies in the works with a release date of February 2010, looks interesting.

Diary of the dead was mehish in my opinion, I really would like something more linked with the story arch of land of the dead and how people have adapted to the zombie infested world they live in.

 

[Laura.]

"Zombieland"... oh wait

Really, his zombie films are the best, I want something like a new Day of the Dead (I liked the soldier-scientist conflicts in it).

 

[wewontdie11]

"A Dawn On The Day In The Diary During The Night Of The Dead."

 

[Redd]

"A Dawn On The Day In The Diary During The Night Of The Dead."

Well that's a mouth full. And I can actually see that being used as a title of a movie, which is the sad part.

 

[Shadowfaze]

he should do diary of the dead 2. that was a cool movie, a sequal would be cool too.

 

[Deleric]

I dunno, he should really just move on. Try and tackle a different genre of horror.

EDIT: Also, I find the tagline for Survival of the Dead kind of ironic.

"Death Just Isn't What It Used To Be"

 

[oppp7]

Death of the Dead. Zombie movies are overdone/cliched.

 

[Jark212]

World War Z, But he'd screw it up...