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Posted by: ttop33 on September 25, 2009 at 17:20:45

I often wonder if studios have even seen the original film before they yell. Prequel, origins story. Barbara sitting around her apartment and cooking for her brother isn't going to be all that interesting.

Plus the great thing about the original, intended or unintentional is that we don't get to know the characters before the incident. It made it realistic as hell because there were no character arcs. We met the characters exactly how they were in real life and they didn't change throughout the film, very anti-dramatic but realistic in the same way.

Posted by: Jimothy on September 25, 2009 at 17:53:12

I'm so confused. What is this movie going to be about again??!!!

P.S. I love Danielle Harris!

Posted by: EddieSpaghetti on September 25, 2009 at 18:18:41

Ugh. Normally it'd be too early to cry DOOOOM, but everything about this sounds horrible. I personally have no interest in the backstories of the characters from NOTLD. Backstories are irrelevant. They will in no way shed any extra light on the roles played in NOTLD. And CGI? Ugh. I see no reason to go through with this. No reason at all. I hope it bombs so bad so others will be discouraged from doing similar projects.

Posted by: brandon_fear on September 25, 2009 at 20:30:26

God. When will this 3D crap stop! It's becoming a ridiculous fad.

My local theaters have told me that the only people that come to watch the 3D movies are kids and teens. Most adults in my area shy away from it.

I pray it eventually dies!

Posted by: BoomingEchoes on September 26, 2009 at 15:37:38

One of the endearing qualities of Night of the Living Dead was that we didn't know anything going into it. Not what caused it, no back story about the characters, nothing. It was scared people in a house dealing with something they had no clue about to the backdrop of racism.


This project seems like a terrible idea, the message of 'night' has outgrown itself now and this probably won't even be touched on in this, which just kills the story before it starts. I hope they don't feed it to us like it has to be known to enjoy the original film. Also CGI is probably a bad move if they want any realism to go with the originals story and 3D will probably come off as a gimmick.

I wish Harris luck, at least its a paycheck..

Posted by: nysro on September 27, 2009 at 04:46:43

This movie will be a show case for the awful trend of everything being 3-d. That alone makes it very unappealing. The backstory idea makes it even more uninteresting.

3-d needs to stop.. gives me a headache, and i have yet to see a movie that was made better because of 3-d.. It's usually just stuff poking at the screen for no reason, which served zero purpose to the stories.

Posted by: Remy on September 27, 2009 at 15:05:41

Yeah ok so they already did the 3-D thing with Night of the Living Dead 3-D in 2006 starring Sid Haig which was not only the second remake but a very poor one on all accounts. The only credible version needed to be done in the form of a remake was the 1990 version directed by Tom Savini who has made his career working along side George Romero. Savini started early on doing the make up for the original Night of the Living Dead and onto such films as Dawn of the dead, Day of the dead, Martin, Knight Riders and others all working with the creator of a it all. I live smack dab in the middle of Zombieville USA. 40 minutes from Evans City where the original Night of the Living Dead was filmed and 45 minutes from Monroeville PA where Dawn of the Dead was filmed. In fact I work 10 minutes from the Monroeville Mall. Every year I talk with the actors and extras at the cons, go to the zombie museum at Time and Space toys in the mall, been on the Zombie Tour with Romero, the man is a true Gentleman. Hell my first job was working for one of the actors from several of Romero’s films.

Please leave his work as it is and stand alone. No more remakes are needed or desired. We take our zombies very serious in this area and it would be best suited if you focused the time and money into a completely new movie, Zombie or not, just do something yourself not rehash and break down a classic work of cinema. Other people have made amazing zombie films that are fresh, funny and original such as Fido, Shaun of the Dead, My Boyfriend’s Back, Dead and Breakfast, The italian Zombi film series, The Return of the Living Dead Saga or even Undead from the down under region of the planet which was so bad it was good. There are tons of really bad ones too. Take the chance and be original pass or fail at least you have something of your own to stand by instead of a half-a**ed remake of a classic.