Our friends over at Homepageofthedead.com did a great interview with George A. Romero on George A. Romero's Survival Of The Dead. The full interview is here (click on Speaking of the Dead: An Interview with George A Romero.)
A few tidbits (for those who stayed up too late to read the whole thing):
George's message this time out. "It's mainly about tribalism, which I think is what is screwing the world up - tribalism, nationalism, religion -people taking sides. All of my zombie films have had a little touch of that, but this is specifically about it."
For you gorehounds out there: "It's restrained compared to Day or Dawn... It certainly has more than Diary and there's one really sort of spectacular sequence, but we're worried whether the MPAA will allow it - where they pull a guy apart..."
And a message to the fans: "Basically what I want to say is forgive me... the biggest thing that bugs me is that fans want me to do either the last movie I did or do another Dawn or do another this or do another that - and that pisses me off! That's not what I'm about! I'm gonna make a movie, look at it, if you don't like it that's fine. If you like it, then I love it. In other words don't punish me because this was not as good as Dawn. This is what I'm thinking right now..."
George A. Romero's Survival Of The Dead screens at TIFF on: Saturday September 12, 11:59PM - RYERSON & Monday September 14, 12:30PM - SCOTIABANK THEATRE 2
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