The Romero Roundup – Interviews Of The Dead
With Survival of the Dead’s release the patron saint of the undead has been very busy making the press circuit. There is a LOT of information floating around form recent interviews spanning video games, Survival of the Dead, his upcoming book, and possibly where he wants to take the movies he has made from the vision he has. I’ve tried to collect the most useful interviews that contain the majority of the information that isn’t fully repeating itself in both video and text format. Be prepared for a long post if you feel like reading it and if this doesn’t give you a fix for Romero you may have to consider stalking and kidnapping him as your next option.
5/6 – George Romero wants to make a game, talked with Capcom
It seems that legendary zombie movie maker George A. Romero isn’t just interested in movies. In an interview I conducted with him yesterday in support of his film Survival of the Dead, he admitted that he was interested in making a videogame, and that he had been approached by many companies about doing it, including Capcom.
[via: Destructoid.]
5/11 – George Romero Talks Two More Dead Films & Other Upcoming Projects
“Because the first four Dead films are individually controlled by someone else, I’ve never been able to get cooperation from anyone to do work with those characters again. I would have loved to see Bub (Day of the Dead) before he died, but I’ve never been able to do that. So now we can because we’re working on our own terms”
[via: Dread Central.]
5/12 – Catching Up With George A. Romero
I’d like to set up the rules more. Zombies don’t run. [laughs] A little bit of that stuff. Do they shit? There’s a lot to discuss here. I have all of those ideas spinning in my head and I’d like to put out my own little bible.
[via: Shock Till You Drop.]
5/13 – Romero Drops New Hints About Next ‘…Dead’
“I have three storylines ready to go,†Romero told FEARnet and G4 exclusively. “I’m going to take these minor characters from Diary. One is the Sarge. Another one is the little band of looters. And the blonde who gets away, who’s not a minor character, but she will be my cleanup hitter if I get to do it. And weave it all together. It’s the first time I’ve been able to do that. [Stephen] King has this town called Castle Rock that appears in dozens of his books, and you get to know everybody… the characters recur, you get to know everybody. It creates a mythology that’s substantive, instead of just fleeting.â€
[via: FearNet.]
5/13 – Check out our Interview with George A. Romero
[via: Punch Drunk Critics.]
5/14 – BD Sits Down With Zombie Maestro George A. Romero!
BD: One final question, I have to know, what it’s like working with such a prima donna actor like Uncle Creepy Steve Barton? (BZ note: Uncle Creepy is one of Dread Central’s most prolific writers)
GR: (laughs) Hah! Gave me more trouble than anyone! No, what a sweet guy. He was like a pig in shit. He just couldn’t believe to do this, particularly this big gag, tearing this guy apart. But he was loving it!
[via: Bloody Disgusting.]
5/14 – George A. Romero wants you to leave his zombies alone!
[via: Destructoid.]
5/15 – Lost Zombies: George Romero Interview
[via: Lost Zombies.]
5/17 – George A. Romero Talks Survival of the Dead and More!
“I think the reason Night still holds up after all this time is that beyond the zombies, there’s a timeless and terrifying story there. And for the people that aren’t as familiar with the horror genre, I think that the movie is almost a curiosity piece. People weren’t making films like that at the time and certainly not horror films with a message,†said Romero.
[via: Dread Central.]
5/19 – Romero On Survival Of The Dead part 1
In Part One (of three) of our lengthier on-camera interview, Romero tells Fango’s Tony Timpone about the plot and themes of his latest film SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD
(Video not embeddable)
[via: Fangoria.]
5/19 – THE CHUD INTERVIEW: GEORGE ROMERO (SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD)
Not particularly, no. This whole thing has a curious history. I thought Diary of the Dead was going to be a one shot; I have these zombie films over here that I’ve been doing for a while, and then I wanted to do something about emerging media, about citizen journalism. I knew I had to do it quick. I wanted to do it inexpensively so I could have control, and below a certain budget I can have creative control
[via: CHUD.]
5/20 – Romero On Survival Of The Dead part 2
In part two (of three) of our meaty interview, Romero tells Fango’s Tony Timpone about the talented actors and the special FX found in his latest film SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD
(Video not embeddable)
[via: Fangoria.]
5/25 – Mr. Beaks Interviews George A. Romero!
Beaks: What particular genres could you see zombies occupying?
Romero: Specifically, noir. I’d love to do something with that tone. But they’ll never let me shoot it black-and-white, so I might have to pull a Darabont and shoot color, then print it in black-and-white later [ala THE MIST].
[via: Aint It Cool News.]
5/26 – The George Romero Interview
[via: Cinema Cool Show.]
5/26 – Q&A: ZOMBIE MASTER GEORGE ROMERO ON SCRABBLE, SEX AND THE CITY, AND WHY FAST ZOMBIES SUCK
PMYou’ve made six zombie movies in 42 years. What have you been doing the rest of the time?
RomeroWe’re either – my partner and I – developing new ideas, or I’m just sitting at home playing Scrabble with my girlfriend and playing with the cat.
[via: Philadelphia Magazine.]
5/28 – DCist Interview: George Romero
DCistSpeaking of Snyder and “the rules,” Simon Pegg wrote an excellent essay for the Guardian recently about the fast versus slow zombie debate. He talks about how death is a disability and not a superpower, and that it’s hard enough to run if you have a cold, let alone if you’re dead; and that there’s a symbolic import to zombies moving slowly, because death is inexorable and it comes at you slow and steady. I wonder how you’d respond to that, and how you’d respond to the general debate.
RomeroI completely agree with Simon there. Forget the philosophical aspect of it, though that is an interesting point that he makes. I just don’t think it makes any sense. In 28 Days Later they weren’t dead, right? Maybe you can forgive those guys, same with Zombieland. But I think if they’re dead— I don’t know, it seems ridiculous. It also just doesn’t seem as threatening to me. I grew up on the Mummy and that thing just keeps coming; slow, but it keeps coming. I just think it’s spookier.
[via: DCist.]
5/28 – George Romero Interview, Survival of the Dead
Q: Do you see these films as completely separate from the other ones or is there a sense that given the canon of all the films that you’ve made, they all fit into different points on a timeline?
GR: Yes, this is sort of a parallel timeline with the first four. The first four seem to progress along a certain line and now these would be the first night and then a few months later what’s the world like a few months later. So I do see these two as the beginning of a new little chapter, a different, parallel chapter
[via: Movies Online.]
5/30 – The Sunday Conversation: With George A. Romero
Chicago Tribune: How do you keep zombies fresh?
Romero: 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 DC 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.
[via: Chicago Tribune.]
6/02 – George A. Romero Talks ‘Survival of The Dead’ & Beyond!
IVI:Do you have any thoughts on the remakes of your films, that they have done?
Romero:I wouldn’t have done them. [laughs] I don’t know what else to say. In both cases, although I think Zack Snyder did a great job with the remake of ‘Dawn of The Dead’, I wouldn’t have done it. I mean, when I made ‘Dawn’, that shopping mall was the first shopping mall that many of us had ever seen. Now they are everywhere, so it sorta loses it’s meaning. With ‘The Crazies’, my film was more an angry film about Vietnam and I wouldn’t have remade it. I think that someone had the idea that the remake could be something more like ‘Twenty Eight Days Later’ or something like that. I think Breck Eisner did a great job on it but I don’t think either film needed to be remade.
[via: Icon vs Icon.]
6/10 – Inside The Brain of the Daddy of the Dead
[via: Wired.]
