Supposed Release Date : October 21st, 2005
I am looking really forward to this movie. It will be great to see how the master of zombie movies will do after 28 Days Later and Dawn of The Dead 2004 (hated the former, loved the latter). The plot sounds pretty awesome for a zombie movie, too:
*Synopsis: George A. Romero's Land of the Dead is the acclaimed director's long awaited return to the horror genre he invented, beginning with the seminal Night of the Living Dead and continuing with Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead .
In this new tale, Romero creates a harrowing vision of a modern day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead "normal" lives behind the walls of a fortified city . A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard scrabble existence on the streets below . But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving . Inside, anarchy is on the rise . With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries are called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead .*
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391076/
Official Site (sucks)
http://www.diamonddead.com/
Very Nifty Fansite
http://homepageofthedead.com/films/land/
http://www.homepageofthedead.com/cgi/forum/forum.pl?f=a
Romero's Offical Site (nothing on there, really)
http://www.georgearomero.com/
Apparently, I got the official site and the IMDB entries fucked up. Here's the real deal:
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418819/
Official Site (?)
http://www.landofthedeadmovie.net/
Age for there's a trailer now available on http://www.landofthedeadmovie.net/ and oh lord it's beautiful!
Also, there's an alternative trailer which was on the official website but isn't anymore: http://www.playingwithdeadthings.com/LandOfTheDead.html
I guess I was a bit too quick there. >>4 seems to be the same trailer as on the official site... hm...
Oh what the hell, I just noticed that only in the intro they took out the reference shots from Dawn and Day and changed the music. My bad.
Stolen from BoingBoing
Zombie meister George Romero profiled in the LA Times
The zombie flick Land of the Dead opens in theaters tomorrow, and the LA Times interviews its maker, George Romero, who made Night of the Living Dead 37 years ago. Land of the Dead is his fourth zombie movie, and like all his movies, it's loaded with social criticism (which, in my opinion, is what zombie movies are all about.)
Images Products Regular 10080000 10080079"Night" evoked Vietnam-era bloodshed and, with its black male lead trapped in a farmhouse, echoed civil rights hysteria. "Dawn" poked fun at soul-deadening consumerism. And "Day" addressed ethics in science. With "Land," Romero tackles issues of safety and boundaries, showing a community fortifying itself against a murderous horde while its wealthiest keep alive class divisions separating them from the powerless.
"It's the folly of saying, 'Everything's OK, don't worry about it,' " says Romero, who wrote "Land" before the events of Sept. 11. Its focus then was about "ignoring social ills, setting up a synthetic sense of comfort."
He says he didn't have to tweak it much to reflect new fears of terrorism. When told that it's hard not to think of Iraq watching an armored car of trigger-happy humans roll through a zombiefied suburb shooting anything they see, Romero smiles. "That's one of the things I put in there afterward."
http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-wk-movies23jun23,2,702455.story
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/23/zombie_meister_georg.html
http://www.landofthedeadmovie.net/
now online with the usual production info, pictures, game, etc.
Oh, and here's a link to a 2channel thread about the movie:
http://tv6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/cinema/1115478110/
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright zombified on the movie poster. That makes me so happy... weeps