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“We Are Very Close to Getting It There”: ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Reboot Gets Deadly Update From Writer
Collider ^ | 5/13/25 | Makuochi Echebiri

Posted on 05/15/2025 12:30:57 PM PDT by DallasBiff

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Night of the Living Dead, the horror classic that birthed the modern zombie genre, is getting a reboot, and writer LaToya Morgan has now confirmed that the screenplay is complete. With rising filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu attached to direct, the project is one of the most anticipated horror reimaginings in recent memory. Originally released in 1968 and directed by the legendary godfather of zombies, George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead broke ground for its depiction of a zombie outbreak. Now, more than five decades later, this new sequel, which seeks to restart the franchise, promises to carry that legacy forward

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Well pretty much the scariest movie I ever saw. Saw it first at a local movie theater in the early 70's, scared the hell out of me and the above picture is democrat voters going to the polls

The new version will be woke and stupid

1 posted on 05/15/2025 12:30:57 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
The new version will be woke and stupid

They should leave well enough alone, but they'll go for bigger and better and more expensive and put a chick in it and make her gay. Whereas a lot of the appeal of the original was that it was made on a shoestring by Romero but was still frightening - at least it was the first time I watched it.

2 posted on 05/15/2025 12:35:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: DallasBiff

The new version will be woke and stupid...

Plus you won’t be watching from the backseat of your car at the Drive In.


3 posted on 05/15/2025 12:39:06 PM PDT by Hang'emAll (Gold is the money of kings, silver=money of gentlemen, barter=money of peasants, debt=slave's money)
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To: DallasBiff

If you hear “reimagined for today’s audience” run away.


4 posted on 05/15/2025 12:39:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DallasBiff
Negro zombies. How creative.   /sarc

5 posted on 05/15/2025 12:45:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: DallasBiff
The writer and the filmmaker...


6 posted on 05/15/2025 12:48:10 PM PDT by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: Hang'emAll

Made in Pittsburgh by Romero with a local cast. Impressive for its time for casting a black actor in a leading role in which race was not a factor whatsoever.

George Romero was one of the nicest people I met in Hollywood, a very modest and relaxed personality.


7 posted on 05/15/2025 12:49:23 PM PDT by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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To: DallasBiff

Is Romero still alive? He wouldn’t tolerate that.


8 posted on 05/15/2025 12:50:10 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: DallasBiff

I’m kind of partial to “Train to Buson” myself.


9 posted on 05/15/2025 12:55:05 PM PDT by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: DallasBiff

This time the live people will be eating the zombies.


10 posted on 05/15/2025 12:55:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: DallasBiff

Anything that is “rebooted” is crap.
Even Alfred Hitchcock remade one or two of his early films, but they weren’t “reboots”. Hollywood has nothing to offer at all anymore except crap remakes, CGI superhero junk, and rehashed tropes with all of the above.


11 posted on 05/15/2025 12:56:45 PM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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To: tet68

“Train to Busan” may well be the best zombie movie ever.


12 posted on 05/15/2025 12:57:07 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DallasBiff

They should be required by law to send a $100,000 check to the estate of George Romero.

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13 posted on 05/15/2025 1:01:46 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Eddie Murphy said you couldn’t do a black version of “The Amityville Horror”

Eddie Murphy: In “The Amityville Horror,” the ghost told them to get out of the house. White people stayed in there. Now that’s a hint and a half for your ass. A ghost say get the ____ out, I would just tip the ___ out the door! Lou Walker looked in the toilet bowl, there was blood in the toilet. And said, “That’s peculiar.”

I would’ve been in the house saying: “Oh baby, this is beautiful. We got a chandelier hanging up here, kids outside playing. It’s a beautiful neighborhood. We ain’t got nuttin’ to worry about, I really love it, this is really nice.”

Eddie Murphy: [imitating loud whisper] “GET OUT”

Eddie Murphy: “Too bad we can’t stay, baby!”


14 posted on 05/15/2025 1:02:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff; RandallFlagg; Phinneous; The Spirit Of Allegiance; monkeyshine; null and void
>>>...the screenplay is complete. With rising filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu attached to direct, the project is one of the most anticipated horror reimaginings in recent memory.<<<

5/10/2025:

Well, in NOTLD it was the radiation from the Venus probe that brought the dead back to life.
Might still happen

I'm gonna be so busted for this one, but I can't resist:


15 posted on 05/15/2025 1:02:58 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: NorthMountain
From Dusk Til Dawn...

George Clooney before he took himself too seriously...

16 posted on 05/15/2025 1:03:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: nitzy

IS THAT FOR REAL?! IF SO, HARD PASS!


17 posted on 05/15/2025 1:03:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: NorthMountain
I didn't realize there was a Buson II.
have to catch that.

I don't care for the Zombie movies but Buson had such great cinematography, I couldn't stop once it started...and the scene with the locomotive dragging the horde of zombies behind it was awesome !!!!!

18 posted on 05/15/2025 1:04:32 PM PDT by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: Rummyfan
One of the greatest movie scenes ever....


19 posted on 05/15/2025 1:05:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Agreed!


20 posted on 05/15/2025 1:05:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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