Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a report from the Edinburgh Film Festival where George Romero recently spoke. Below he talks about the making of LAND OF THE DEAD, what to expect on the DVD, DIAMOND DEAD and his future with Stephen King's properties... I honestly can't wait for him to do THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON. That's such a tight, creepy story. One of the best of King's recent stuff. Also, we've gotten a different heads up about DIAMOND DEAD in which THIS LINK RIGHT HERE was sent. If you click on it you'll see what is claimed to be a prop that looks pretty nifty to me. Enjoy the world of Romero!!!
Hey Quint,
I'm mailling ya because I went to the Edinburgh Film Festival screening of Land of the Dead, and Geogre A Romero himself was there.
He's doing a more extensive Q&A tommorow (which I'll email about after the fact) but here's a couple of tidbits:
- To get an R rating the MPAA would tell them to remove frames from a shot, to obscure some of the gore. So they filmed Zombies walking across the camera against a green screen to cover said frames, and it also helps the flow.
- The film on DVD has a bit more gore, Greg Nicataro did some stuff that they didn't even bother putting it because the MPAA wouldn't have allowed it.
- The DVD will have another scene where John Leguizamo walks in on a "fat cat" in Fiddlers Green who's hanged himself and comes back as a zombie. This was to establish that a bite wasn't the only way people come back. According to Geogre this scene didn't come out quiet like he's hoped, but it may be put in for the DVD.
- John Leguizamo adlibbed ALOT.
- Geogre also told us the plot of the Diamond Dead.
There's this boyband, and one of their girlfriends wants to sing in the group. They of course say no, as its a boyband. So she kills them by turning up their amps too high. She then feels bad, and makes a deal with the devil to bring them back. Unfortunately their noses and stuff keep falling off.
-He REALLY wants to make Diamond Dead, and there's costume designs and everything, but they just don't have the money to do it yet.
- Geogre is also working on two Stephen King adaptions "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" and "From a Buick 8".
Well that's your lot, hopefully more to report tommorow.
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