Dawn of the Dead remake?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/dawnofthedead/

there better be nudity.

I liked the remake of "Night of the Living Dead" (not as much as the original, but as its own thing), so I'd like to give this a chance. Kind of unsettling not to see Romero attached even as a producer, though. I'd also have liked a completely no name cast. Oh well, I'll watch it...

DotD is my favorite movie ever. I figured someone would do a remake some time, but I was hoping Romero would be attatched somehow.

I can't watch the trailer, due to my 56k connection. How does it look? Does it say when it comes out?

I'm not hoping for much based on the trailer. If I see a review that says "Hip!" or "Sexy!," I won't bother. Of course, I won't bother anyway; these things are almost always botchjobs. They already sexed-up Fran too much, and WTF is with that dog?! The group is in the mall to begin with, so that's already wrong (does that mean Peter and Roger aren't in a special forces unit, Fran and Stephen aren't TV studio employees? Is this just a bunch of shoppers?!), and the mall is only a small part of the movie. The poster looks better than the movie will probably be. I'm obsessive about my Dawn of the Dead. I met Tom Savini, too, so again!

It's funny- even though it's been more than what, 25 years?

There will be LESS gore in the remake than the original.

It just goes to perfectly illustrate how Hollywood works- and why so few excellent horror/sci-fi films get made.

Rather than finance the (very very willing) George Romero and ever-available Tom Savini to make a fourth, and hopefully excellent new 'Dead' film

Hollywood throws it's cash behind young, pretty actors and the famous 'Dawn of the Dead' name.

They shouldn't be making this movie.

Then again, Romero has lost his touch- so there's no guarantee he could pull off a new Dead film- but FUCK it's worth a shot

But the name of the film and the fresh cast will make a much better profit than Romero could.

neobuyer said:

It's funny- even though it's been more than what, 25 years?

There will be LESS gore in the remake than the original.

It just goes to perfectly illustrate how Hollywood works- and why so few excellent horror/sci-fi films get made.

Rather than finance the (very very willing) George Romero and ever-available Tom Savini to make a fourth, and hopefully excellent new 'Dead' film

Hollywood throws it's cash behind young, pretty actors and the famous 'Dawn of the Dead' name.

They shouldn't be making this movie.

Then again, Romero has lost his touch- so there's no guarantee he could pull off a new Dead film- but FUCK it's worth a shot

But the name of the film and the fresh cast will make a much better profit than Romero could.

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It's all the sad, sad truth.

At least it will inspire a special addition DVD release of the original movie.

lmao You guys are ridiculous. Already bad-mouthing the film based on a tiny trailer.

Any time a zombie movie gets a Hollywood budget something turns out decently, at least we get to see scenes of the mass hysteria and panic that grips the world once the infection starts to spread, those are always my favorite scenes in such films.

Granted the original DotD is zombie-killing mayhem at its finest, but honestly the last half-hour gets pretty lame. Zombie pie fight with a fat biker gang? LETS GET REAL.

IMHO, the original Night of the Living Dead is still the best of the entire genre. Dark and moody, atmospheric as FUCK and still one of the most inspiring and alltogether melancholy endings of all time. I'd love to see a remake of it (yes, again) this time sticking to the original formula, perhaps even using handheld DV cameras a'la 28 Days Later to retain that gritty raw feeling.

But yeah, hopefully this movie at least garners a DVD re-release of the now ULTRA rare DotD Anniversary print.

Buro Destruct said:

lmao You guys are ridiculous. Already bad-mouthing the film based on a tiny trailer.

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The last big name zombie movie released was House of the Dead.

Think about that.

I will try to keep an open mind about this remake, but let's be honest, there is alot they can fuck up.

Well, I'm excited to see how it turns out - but no overly optimistic. I have been fairly starved for a real zombie flick for the last 15 years or so, so maybe that'll help make up for some of the generaly Hollywood suckitude that pervades almost everything they dish out these days.

What are the odds of this film being 'good' let alone living up to what is considered by many- including the stroke-faced Roger Ebert- to be one of the greatest horror films of all time?

The simple fact is that the people who landed the rights to this film are remaking it to cash in on the famous name.

Otherwise- they could do a shot for shot remake and call it something unrelated to 'Dawn of the Dead' and it would make half, or less the money it will with the name.

God- at least when they remade the original 'Night' it made a radical jump in terms of being in color. Most agree it was pretty good too.

But the original was a much simpler and less ambitious piece of work. One of the first independant films. Made on a shoestring by a bunch of daring kids.

'Dawn' on the other hand was Romero's defining dequel, hugely ambitious and widely hailed as being superior in both scope and technique to the 1968 original.

And who are we kidding? The GORE stood out in 'Dawn'

There will be 1/4 if not less the gore in this remake

No fucking studio film will depict humans getting literally taken apart with their steaming intestines being divied up by a bunch of zombies.

What you have here is a film that may be good. It might even be something that kind of/sort of lives up to the overall 'mood' and 'scope' of the original- but it's a cash in. It's being made by people who have nothing else on their minds than finding the right 'mix' of young, good looking actors and putting them in a film with the name 'Dawn of the Dead'.

And Romero? He'll be lucky if he get's to do another Japan-only RE commercial.

neobuyer said:

And who are we kidding? The GORE stood out in 'Dawn'

There will be 1/4 if not less the gore in this remake

No fucking studio film will depict humans getting literally taken apart with their steaming intestines being divied up by a bunch of zombies.

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Gore is the LAST thing I look for in a good zombie movie. The point of zombie films (for me) isn't the gore, its about watching people react as seemingly the last surviving members of the human race, the horribly dystopian turn the world has taken into a new form of urban wilderness.

I've seen the teaser trailer and the new longer trailer.
The poster looks cool. Maybe I wil get a copy.
Far as the movie remake is concerned those don't look like zombies more ala 28 days which I thought was boring. This remake looks like it is copying 28 days. Zombies are speedy and shit. They probably don't even eat flesh and if they do they definitely won't be showing it in this 'R' rated remake.
But of course I will go and check it out nonetheless. Hopefully I will be proven wrong.
Saw House of the Dead just a couple of days ago. No gore. Speedy zombies yet again. Techno music. What has become standard Matrix action scene. It was crap. Good thing I had it on as background noise.
Just have to face it I am getting old because
THEY JUST DON'T MAKE THEM LIKE THEY USED TO!
Heck I've seen DOTD like 50 times. Can't wait for the 2 disc or is it 3 disc dvd set that comes out tihs fall.

genjiglove said:

The last big name zombie movie released was House of the Dead.

Think about that.

I will try to keep an open mind about this remake, but let's be honest, there is alot they can fuck up.

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Lord knows that 28 Days Later wasn't a big name movie.

Buro Destruct said:

Gore is the LAST thing I look for in a good zombie movie. The point of zombie films (for me) isn't the gore, its about watching people react as seemingly the last surviving members of the human race, the horribly dystopian turn the world has taken into a new form of urban wilderness.

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I agree, I find that a good zombie movie is a depressing one. 28 Days Later being the exception. I guess the obvious message is that without cooperation, all is lost. I mean, look at Day of the Dead. The group of soldiers and scientists pretty much knew they were some of, if not the, last humans on the planet. Yet they still let personal grudges and pride get in the way of progress, however meaningless that progress might have been.

But I also have to say that I think good gore is important to the overall experience of a great zombie movie.

genjiglove said:

I agree, I find that a good zombie movie is a depressing one. 28 Days Later being the exception. I guess the obvious message is that without cooperation, all is lost. I mean, look at Day of the Dead. The group of soldiers and scientists pretty much knew they were some of, if not the, last humans on the planet. Yet they still let personal grudges and pride get in the way of progress, however meaningless that progress might have been.

But I also have to say that I think good gore is important to the overall experience of a great zombie movie.

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Gore is the staple element for a zombie movie, and Genji has the right thinking with the 28 Days Later speech.

Just read a review of the remake on fangoria website discussion board if anyone is interested. It has spoilers.

endgamer said:

Just read a review of the remake on fangoria website discussion board if anyone is interested. It has spoilers.

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I don't really want any major spoilers, but could you tell us what they thought of it?

I have a hard time trusting Fango's reviews. These days they are so desperate for movies to talk about that they'll give some really shitty movies good reviews. Or at least that's how it seemed last time I read it.

Many of the early reviews have said that the movie, while different than the original, is surprisingly good. I'll wait and see. As for Romero, he is going to do a fourth Dead movie. Originally Anchor Bay (yes, the video company) was going to put up about $10 million. Since then, a bigger studio has stepped in and is going to give him a budget of about $40 million. So he's currently reworking the script to do some extra things with the money. Allegedly, the only restriction that the studio has put on him is that he deliver an R rated cut, with the promise that they'll release his cut on DVD. There are more details that I'm obviously forgetting, but you should be able to find them archived at Bloody Disgusting.