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Sun, 2007-08-12 20:35 — joefrese

When news of George Romero's Diary of the Dead hit the internets, I was ecstatic. Say what you will about his decades-long bout with mediocrity after Day of the Dead; 2005's Land of the Dead proved the maestro still knows his zombies. Then came the rumors: the horror this time around would be "edgy" and "real," captured on drab DV—"the Blair Witch of zombie flicks!"—and I started getting nervous. Now the Pittsburgh Tribune drops this bomb:

"[Romero] is going back to the origins of the mythology, so this is not a post-apocalyptic vision of the world, it's happening right now, today," [executive producer John] Harrison said. "It's a perfect tale of zombies in this current world, this current climate," with students wielding digital cameras and lots of references to downloading, podcasting and cell phones.

Zombie fans take heart that the closing quotation mark occurs before the "podcasting" remark, because it leaves open the possibility that this is just bad reporting. But if not . . . "Lots" of references to podcasting? Really? I guess it could work—if and only if it features an undead George Romero, eating the brains of every member of the focus group who wrote the word "podcasting" on whatever horror movie survey those Hollywood marketing hacks cooked up. And even then, I'd probably wait for it to show up on cable.

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