{"id":16651,"date":"2016-11-01T17:39:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T21:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16651"},"modified":"2016-11-01T17:39:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T21:39:32","slug":"george-romero-the-notld-restoration-and-his-thoughts-on-the-walking-dead-world-war-z-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16651","title":{"rendered":"George Romero, the NOTLD Restoration and His Thoughts on The Walking Dead, World War Z and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z110116georgeromero_interview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\">The Hollywood Reporter <\/a>posted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/george-a-romero-says-brad-pitt-killed-zombie-genre-942559?facebook_20161031\">Aaron Couch&#8217;s interview with George Romero<\/a>. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a taste then click over and read the whole thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Night of the Living Dead is getting a restoration by the Museum of Modern Art and Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Film Foundation, which brings it back to pristine condition!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked about the future of his Living Dead franchise, Romero said: &#8220;I think really Brad Pitt killed it. The Walking Dead and Brad Pitt just sort of killed it all. The remake of Dawn of the Dead made money. I think pretty big money. Then Zombieland made money, and then all of a sudden, along comes Brad Pitt and he spends $400 million or whatever the hell to do World War Z.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Romero:\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s not about the gore, it&#8217;s not about the horror element that are in them. It&#8217;s more about the message, for me. That&#8217;s what it is, and I&#8217;m using this platform to be able to show my feelings of what I think.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the restored Night of the Living Dead. \u00a0I hope that the restoration doesn&#8217;t take away from the film&#8217;s horror. \u00a0If it is too clean looking it may feel more like a movie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While I can see where Romero is coming from, I don&#8217;t think that the bigger budget zombie movies are a bad thing&#8230; as long as they&#8217;re done well. \u00a0; )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter posted\u00a0Aaron Couch&#8217;s interview with George Romero. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a taste then click over and read the whole thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16653,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}