Posted by Undead Johnny on October 3, 2008, 3:37 am
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From Variety:
Romero rises again for zombie film
Untitled thriller has already started shooting
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Director George Romero is beginning production on an untitled thriller. Once again, the antagonists are flesh-eating zombies.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.
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.
I gotta say, this made my October so far! Romero zombie film is always good news. I mean, I pretty much hated DIARY (and I'm soooo glad to hear this isn't Diary 2. Cause I remember talk about continuing to follow those characters. I'd rather he followed Simon Baker and Asia to Canada from LAND if he was going to do that.)
Sounds to me like this may take place in DIARY's rebooted universe though. Like the rising from the dead is a new thing. But I like the island sound...people trapped. Like NOTLD but a community trapped rather than a group of people in a house. Sounds like it might pick up on some of DAY's "do we really need to kill them" vibe as well. People on an island trying to decide whether or not to keep themselves a society and live by the rules while a zombie attack happens sounds rife for drama and conflict.
Bring it on, George! I'm ready! 
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