George Romero Adapting The Zombie Autopsies

George Romero Adapting The Zombie Autopsies

Zombie legend George Romero Adapting the book The Zombie Autopsies by Steven Schlozman

By MalcomReynolds - Oct 19, 2011 05:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror

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George Romero is back in the spotlight, doing a bit of hosting for AMC's Fear Fest and io9 sat down with the zombie godfather to discuss the genre, his films and what he's at work on.

During the Q&A, he divulged some details as to something he is scripting.

So an economic collapse zombie Noir film?

How do you do that, man? The Noir part might be OK — zombies all hunkered around not being able to find any food anywhere. But see their food is not our food… I don't know how to do it. The closest I could come is "The Zombie Autopsies" — just the way Wall Street engineered mortgages someone has engineered a great big collapse of society. Someone said, "The world is way too populated. We're going to kill off half the population of the world and as a result we're going to get richer!" It's the only way I can see doing it.



You should option that book.

We have. We have done it, and I'm working on the screenplay right now.

So are you going to do it Noir style?

I may decide to do it that way, I don't know. This is Steve's story, not mine. It's more like The Andromeda Strain. It's very tense and very medically correct. This guy's a doctor, it's all about being medically correct. I think about it like the first Hammer Frankenstein film, which was all about very graphic scenes of brains floating in blood and things like that. I want it to be perfectly accurate, almost shockingly so.
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the420fanboy
the420fanboy - 10/19/2011, 5:45 PM
So he won't touch walking dead but he'll adapt this? Wtf?
bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 10/19/2011, 6:36 PM
I feel like he was too intimidated by TWD quality. I love Romero's films, but they are your average zombie flicks every time.
EarOne
EarOne - 10/20/2011, 5:46 PM
after reading bout him refusing Walking Dead and sounding so pompous bout it, i just lost some respect for the guy. he just sounds like a sore loser. too bad.
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