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George A. Romero hat ja neulich mit zwei weiteren Zombie-Filmen gedroht, nun hat er verraten, wie er sich deren Plot vorstellt: „’There’s a group of looters, African Americans, that are sort of holed up in the city and that would be probably the next group,’ Romero explained. ‘Then I’d sort of wrap it all up with the blond character, Tracy, who gets away at the end from our main group.’“ Solange es keine reitenden Leichen gibt, go ahead. Aber skeptisch bleibe ich nach dem Survival-Desaster.

Der LA Times hat Romero nun noch ein kurzes Interview gegeben, in dem er über die Basics seiner Untoten-Vision spricht:

IL: What inspired you to make No. 6?
GR: I think of it as four and two. The first four were on their own track. Even though they were made 10 years apart from each other or more, it’s meant to be the same storyline. “Night of the Living Dead,” then “Dawn of the Dead” is a few weeks later, “Day of the Dead” months later and “Land of the Dead” is three years later. Each one spoke about a different decade and was stylistically different. After “Land,” I wanted to do something about emerging media and citizen journalism, so I got this idea for “Diary of the Dead.” I thought it would be a one-off. But because it was so inexpensive to make — it may have gotten close to three [million dollars] by the time we were finished — it wound up making a lot of money. It’s still earning. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

IL How do you keep zombies fresh?

GR: With CG, I can do more and be sillier. In “Diary,” there’s a scene where they hit a guy with acid and the camera is never off him, and you see it gradually eat through his skull and get all the way through his brain. That’s fun too. There are a couple of real Looney Tunes and Coyote/Roadrunner moments in this film that I could never have done without CG. I guess I’m a kid in a candy store. I’ve been able to stick with this genre I’ve loved since I was a kid. I grew up on EC comic books and “Tales From the Crypt,” which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies, but at the same time talk about things I want to talk about — whether it’s consumerism or the Bush administration or war.

George A. Romero loves those zombies: ‘It’s the gift that keeps on giving’

Sag was!