Poster art revealed for Diary of the Dead
Fangoria is reporting that the first poster for George Romero’s upcoming Diary of the Dead was released this week at the American Film Market. The movie follows a young filmmaker and his friends as a zombie outbreak occurs during the filming of a horror movie. The group quickly abandons the film and begins documenting the attack, all while trying to save themselves…
This plot reminds me of the “Lost Tapes” on the extra features of the Dawn of the Dead (remake) DVD. This vignette features Andy, the gun shop owner, documenting his experiences with the zombie attack. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth checking out.
I wonder what’s going on with Diamond Dead… (apparently “not much”)
[...] Director/producer Michael Felsher will be showing off a special “behind the scenes” preview at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors convention is Chicago this month. (We’ve blogged about Diary of the Dead before) Here at the ZRC, we’ve also managed to dig up a little more info about the film - it supposedly takes place the same night as the original Night of the Living Dead. From an interview with George Romero: Well, I’m sort of going back to the roots, basically. I’m going back to the first night, when things started. You know, I’ve done the four films in the series… can’t call it a trilogy anymore, cause there’s four of them… but I wanted to… you know there’s a lot of sort of unanswered questions. People keep saying, “Well, you know, like, can animals come back from the dead?†and a million unanswered questions… So I wanted to go back to the very first night, the first night that it started, and I wanted do it from like a different, completely different perspective… [...]