From bloodydisgusting, The other day B-D reporter BC chatted with legendary director George A. Romero about his forthcoming DVD release of Diary of the Dead, which streets on May 20 (more details here). During the interview something interesting came up where Romero teased the possibility of 'Bub' (from DAY OF THE DEAD) returning in his next zombie picture. Read on for the skinny.
Romero talked with B-D about the possibility of characters from DAWN OF THE DEAD or DAY OF THE DEAD ever appearing in the upcoming films. "I had to go to great lengths for Savini to appear in LAND [OF THE DEAD] in his old costume from DAWN [OF THE DEAD]. The problem is those films are owned and controlled by other people," he explains. "They're no longer mine, and it's very expensive. I can't do like Steve King did with CASTLE ROCK. However, if i could get the permission.... there's a character in my new script which could be become Bub, in other words, he would be alive now. But they'd probably want a lot of money for that. I'm bad with that business stuff (laughs)."
Will we see the return of the infamous Bub? Let us all cross our fingers. Until then check out DIARY OF THE DEAD on DVD May 20 from Dimension Extreme and Genius Products.
16 comments:
Bub bears a striking resemblence to the retarded kid that rode on my school bus when I was a kid. That kid was great at imitating game show sounds for some reason.
I was a little jealous.
Didn't that kid have glasses? I remember him in high school, and I'm pretty sure he lives in Bristol now, I have seen him walking.
He did have glasses! His name was Joey. That's funny that you still see him!
I just spoke to the woman running the atheist toy group. She said there will be 5 of us. What she doesn't know is that 3 of us are Horrorthonners!
Wow, so the retarded kid wore glasses? What are the chances? Now I've heard it all!
I mean, what are the odds? Ten billion to one?
I spoke to her yesterday JPX! Three Horrorthoners, that is too funny. Also funny was me trying to explain to her how I found out about it - "there's this blog, see..."
jpx, what's the atheist toy woman's deal? i'm still mildly worried it's a cult or a trap, and we'll lose three of our best and brightest.
Don't worry, the woman checks out and her husband is a psychologist at Brown. I'm going for the free food. I'm sure it's a study under the guise of "evaluating toys".
You can tell the toy lady you found out about her indirectly through Hemant Mehta's blog. I'm so excited you guys are going. I really hope you are not kidnapped and replaced by robots, though.
I told the lady that a friend from LA saw it on the friendly atheist. She noted that she spoke with the guy in the past and he was indeed friendly =)
Wow, this like a chance for Horrorthon to influence society. Make us proud, guys.
I only ever heard Joey do his imitation of the dragon from the gameshow Tic Tac Dough. I heard his Pac-Man was spot on as well, but by the time I got around to asking him to do it he'd been told by teachers not to do it anymore. Lousy teachers.
Yeah, the toy lady seemed nice when I talked to her. Glad you have some more details JPX, at least if we get kidnapped the rest of the 'Thoners will have some leads to follow.
Yes, Octo! I was trying to remember what show that dragon noise came from, that is all I ever heard him do.
I promise to lead the rescue effort if you 3 are snatched and taken to some compound. (Would they then have you making science toys to trap new inductees?).
I'll teach JSP how to shoot...we can then channel his random hatred of things, he'll be a natural-born-killer.
That made me fantasize target practice with moving cardboard targets of people I hate - Dustin Diamond, Shawn and Marlon Wayans, Bill O'Reilly, Jessica Simpson, Kirk Cameron, the Pope, Lars Ulrich (yeah that's right - fuck'im), Zack Efron, Dinesh D'Souza, rap music, the asshole who stole my bike, Manon (if you don't know her then consider yourself lucky), L'il Jinx and President Bush to name a few.
Thanks, that was the laugh I needed today.
I forgot to mention Phillip Seymour Hoffman! I'm sick of his gross face and I've never forgiven him for that crappy indie movie where he was addicted to sniffing gasoline. Overrated pudge-faced fuckwit if you ask me...
love your list, jsp, but i must admit to being a big fan of philip seymour hoffman. he is pudge-faced though.
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