...with a script written by... James Gunn.
Yes the Ex-Troma Scooby Doo Scriptwriter has written a remake of Dawn Of the Dead.
Before you toss your stones and curse him read this:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=13363
I agree with everything said in there. From the sounds of it, it could be a great zombie movie. But having the title "Dawn Of The Dead" will totally kill it. if you market it as a remake no one is going to write it. I really hope it gets made under a new name and minimal cuts.
Old news on the remade front - we've torn into this idea a time or two. I read the same article you listed; bear in mind the reviewer CAN and OFTEN IS bought. That said, the script sounds like it might have potential.
If we can live with 2 Night of the Living Dead s, then we can live with 2 Dawns.
Simple as that.
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I'm more interested in Danny Boyle's totally new zombie film 28 Days Later and Romero's Dead Reckoning. I really don't need to see another classic sullied for the "MTV generation".
I remembered hearing about it a while back but I wasn't aware of any of the plot details that the article pointed out.
Truth be known, I'd probably rather see this than whatever it is Romero is cooking up.
Yeeeeaaaaaa;you tell 'em,guys!!!
Skip this remake crap(no matter how much ole redbeard is jumping up and down over it),and wait till the REAL deal,being George Romero's "Dead Reckoning"("...Dead" Part 4)comes out into celluloid reality,and is unleashed upon our nation's theatrical screens.
I'd love to see a good NOTLD sequel--hell, a good, gory zombie movie--but George Romero has done very little in the field in the last twenty years, and almost none of that has been even a little good. (In fact, I only remembered "Bruiser" because of a trip to the IMDB.) I hope he can do a good movie again, but I can't get my hopes up...
As for this new "Dawn of the Dead," I wholeheartedly agree with the Ain't It Cool article about changing the damned title. Regardless of the script's quality--and if the guy who wrote "Scooby-Doo" has pinched off a good script, I'll have to see it to believe it--the title-hijacking is as bad as hearing your favorite movie or series referred to as a "franchise." A franchise, naturally, is all about the returns, and so it turns into a swamp of preview audiences and focus groups and publicity instead of writing, and suddenly your "franchise" starts tasting like Vanilla.
...Ice.
"28 Days Later" looks interesting, but the trailer doesn't give a lot up. Right now it looks a lot like "The Day of The Triffids" without the walking plants. The IMDB doesn't have squat on "Dead Reckoning"--any links, you guys?