Who is the famous writer-director listed “Stand By Me” the movie as one of his favorites?
SUNDAY JUNE 21: World famous zombie-film-maker George A. Romero has come out of retirement citing the emergence of Stand Up Paddling as “A Zombie Movie opportunity too good to refuse.” Romero – best known for Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985) and Night of the Living Dead (1990) – says the SUP phenomenon will “give a fresh dimension to the whole Zombie genre.” “The script is fleshing out nicely – it’s based on the premise that some surfers became obsessed with unlocking the secrets of a mythical ‘core strength’ formula that would somehow give them ‘watermanly’ powers,” says the 69-year-old Director. “As with all good Zombie films, it starts out innocently enough, with healthy surfers adding the SUP to their quiver of surf alternatives, but things soon get toxic – what with that oddly symmetrical ‘maybe-I’m-gonna-punch-out-a-shit-maybe-I’m-not’ SUP stance, delusions of some hitherto undiscovered bloodline tracing back to The Duke, and the more ‘gone’ Zombies brazenly edging
