Well, that was creepy. The very day I start talking about 28 Weeks Later, we also get news that George Romero is going to start filming on the next film in his classic Zombie series, George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the film is being pitched as a cross between The Blair Witch Project and the previous Romero zombie movies, utilizing a "cinema verite" style to tell the story of a group of teens who go out into the woods to film their own zombie movie but actually come across real zombies!
Hmm... this sounds an AWFUL lot like Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Seriously. The gang travels the USA filming local monsters, only to come to Louisianna where they discover real zombies.
Romero says it won't be like Scooby-Doo though... or any other modern takes on the zombie-genre. It will be 100% Grade-A Romero. "It has my sensibility, my sense of socioeconomic satire," he said. "And it has my zombies! They're not rushing around -- they're gonna be moving slow."
For those of you who thought you could have used a little less howling in the last zombie film, Land of the Dead, Romero's production partner Peter Grunwald said "there'll be a lot of howling." PWND, fanboys.
