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George A. Romero preps new flick (with underwater zombies!)

When flesh-ripping royalty George A. Romero returned to his beloved zombies after a long moratorium with 2005’s Land of the Dead, it wasn’t really clear why. His undisputed masterpiece Dawn of the Dead had already undergone a jazzy Hollywood remake, and Danny Boyle had effectively retooled the genre’s bag of tricks with 28 Days Later. “Thirty-seven years after he first brought his hungry macabre flesh-stalkers to the screen in Night of the Living Dead,” the critic Owen Gleiberman wrote at the time, “Romero may be the last person alive who still thinks they’re a metaphor for something important." ...  read more