Romero returns to the Land of the Dead

According to Variety, Horror-meister George Romero is set to direct "Land of the Dead", a horror film that picks up on the zombie saga he kicked off with "Night of the Living Dead" and continued with "Dawn of the Dead" and "Day of the Dead". The film, from Romero's own script, will begin production in October in Winnipeg or Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh was the site of shooting for Romero's original 1968 zombie trilogy.

In the film, the zombies having taken over the world and those left alive are confined to a walled-in city that keeps out the corpse corps. Anarchy rules the streets, with the wealthy insulated and living in fortified skyscrapers.

The drama revolves around a group of scavengers who must thwart an attempt to overthrow the city while the dead are evolving from brainless slow-moving creatures into more advanced creatures.

Romero had been developing "Diamond Dead", a black comedy musical that's being produced by Scott Free and Andrew Gaty, and he also scripted an adaptation of the Stephen King novel "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon", which he may direct for Canadian financier Don Archibald and Lions Gate.

Source: MovieHole.net