Romero's Latest NOT a Sequel, First Casting Details!

Update: Romero's Latest NOT a Sequel, First Casting Details!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Update:
Movieset reports there will be underwater zombies, while STYD adds that it will take place on an island! Exciting! We learned of some very interesting info this morning that we've been trying to confirm for about a week now. What we have confirmed is that George A. Romero is currently in Toronto, Ontario shooting a new zombie movie, only it's NOT a sequel to DIARY OF THE DEAD like originally announced. No word yet on what exactly it is, but we're doing some more digging in hopes of finding out more. Something we did discover is that Alan Van Sprang is starring in the film, which reunites him with Romero for the third time (Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead). He also starred in Saw III for Lionsgate.


Exclusive: Insider info on George Romero's new zombie movie
Posted on Sep 25th, 2008 @ 7:54PM by Patrick Sauriol

Today I had the chance to talk to Nicolas Chartier, the president of Voltage Pictures. Nicolas was attending the Vancouver International Film Forum and had just finished a panel about the business side of film and the chaos that people in the biz are dealing with right now. After the panel he gave MovieSet an exclusive video interview. That will be appearing on our site soon, but right now I wanted to get word out about some exciting news concerning George A. Romero's newest zombie movie. Romero is the king of the zombie film genre, having birthed it with his 1968 black and white classic Night of the Living Dead. He also brought us Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead and most recently Diary of the Dead -- and in three days he will begin filming his latest zombie epic in Toronto, Canada.So with two zombie fans standing there (my illustrious pal and co-blogger Mike Browne being the ultimate zombie freak) we had to prod the producer of Diary of the Dead as well as the new Romero flick to tell us what was going down with the picture. And Nicolas did.

The first thing Chartier told us was confirmed by Bloody Disgusting at around the same time we were yakking to the man himself, that Romero's new zombie movie is definitely not a sequel to Diary of the Dead. Right now the film doesn't as yet have a title, a fact that Nicolas joked around with us about as he referred to it as "Something of the Dead". "'Dead' will be definately in the title, we just don't know as yet what will be the complete title," he told us. Chartier's company, Voltage Pictures, handled the international sales for Diary of the Dead and are also involved with Romero's new movie project.

Romero's first day of filming is on Sunday, with the production shooting in Toronto. When I asked him if the reason why Romero's back to film his new zombie movie in Canada (Land of the Dead was filmed in Toronto a couple of years back) was because he liked the Canadian crew or incentives, Chartier said no, it's actually because Romero is now an official citizen of Canada. "He just got his Canadian passport," Nicolas said, adding that Romero now calls the city of Toronto his home. Holy crap! The godfather of zombies is now a Canadian citizen??! Canadian horror fans, today is a proud day to be a member of the red and white maple leaf brigade!

Finally, Nicolas did give us one tiiiny little scoop about what kind of new zombie tricks we can expect to see in the new movie. Here's a hint: it's a new environment for Romero but it's a place where fellow zombie/horror helmer Lucio Fulci went two decades ago. "We're shooting underwater zombies," Chartier said with a grin. "They're swimming, grabbing people's legs, pulling them down. It's a lot of fun."

It definitely sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun.