The dead are rising again.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that horror maven George A. Romero has signed on to write and direct "George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead," the latest sequel to his 1968 cult classic "Night of the Living Dead."
With a story mixing elements of "The Blair Witch Project" and the long-running "Dead" series, the film will follow a group of college students shooting a horror movie in the woods who stumble upon a real zombie uprising. When the onslaught begins, they seize the moment as any good film students would, capturing the undead in a "cinema verite" style that causes more than the usual production headaches.
After going more than two decades without making an independently financed zombie film, Romero told his production partner Peter Grunwald he was frustrated working within the system. "I was trying to convince Peter we could just run off and do it ourselves," he said.
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There's a question of degree when it comes to using Blair Witch elements. If the movie we see is the same as the movie the characters are making, there'll be a lot of shaky camera work and old man Octopunk will gripe. If it's a more conventional movie-within-a-movie, I'm more hopeful.
and it worked in Man Bites Dog. so ideally, this would be like Man Bites Man, and then Bites Him Again, Savoring the taste of Fresh Kill on his Tongue, and then Accidentally Bites his Tongue and Savors the Taste of That
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