What new zombie movie is reminiscent of Return of the Living Dead?”
Return of the Living Dead is a series of films that was produced between 1985-2005. The series came about as a dispute between John A. Russo and George A. Romero over how to handle sequels to their 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached a settlement wherein Romero’s sequels would be referred to as the Dead movies, and Russo’s sequels would bear the suffix Living Dead. Thus, each man was able to do what he pleased with the series, while still having one another’s work distinct and be considered canon. Following this decision, Russo wrote a horror novel, Return of the Living Dead, which he planned on adapting into a film script. Although the film rights were initially sold in 1979, they were passed along by several different studios and directors before finally being obtained by Tobe Hooper, for whom Russo wrote a script. Hooper dropped out of the project, though, and the script never came to fruition. Following Hooper’s departure from the project, Russo, along with his new
Living Dead From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search “Living dead” redirects here. For other uses, see Undead. Question book-new.svg This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2008) The original poster for Night of the Living Dead. Living Dead is a blanket term for various films and series that all originated with the seminal 1968 zombie movie Night of the Living Dead created by George A. Romero and John A. Russo. After the film’s initial success, the two creators split in disagreement regarding where the series should go and a contract was drawn up. Any future Romero films would lose the “Living” prefix and simply be referred to as Dead movies and Russo, who wanted to branch the series off into literary territory, would retain the rights to “Living Dead” (though fans nevertheless refer to Romero’s as Living Dead films)
Later zombie films, such as 1985’s The Return of the Living Dead or Peter Jackson’s 1992 gore epic Dead Alive, pushed the humor further, delivering the horror goods but always with an eye toward making the audience laugh. By the time the British import Shaun of the Dead shambled across movie screens in 2004, the zombie comedy — or zombedy — had become a veritable sub-genre. From the outset, the Zombieland writers say they were always interested in stressing the lighter aspect of the gloomy prospect of the end of the world. “We wanted to look on the bright side of the apocalypse and treat the world as a playground — as a place that might actually be fun to spend time in,” Wernick says.
