{"id":18085,"date":"2017-05-21T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18085"},"modified":"2017-05-21T08:30:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T12:30:30","slug":"george-a-romero-presents-road-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18085","title":{"rendered":"George A. Romero Presents: Road of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z052117romero_roadofthedead.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">George Romero and zombie movie fans\u00a0might be happy to hear that a new &#8220;&#8230;of the Dead&#8221; movie is being prepped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>George A. Romero Presents: Road of the Dead<\/em> will be co-written by Romero and Matt Birman who will also direct. \u00a0Birman has served as second unit director on Romero&#8217;s last three &#8220;&#8230; of the Dead&#8221; movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sounds good so far, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s where it literally goes off the tracks for me.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The story is set on an island where zombie prisoners race cars in a modern-day Coliseum for the entertainment of wealthy humans. Birman describes the project as \u201cRoad Warrior\u201d meets \u201cRollerball\u201d at a Nascar race, with significant inspiration from \u201cBen-Hur.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sounds more like<em> Death Race 2000<\/em> meets <em>Dawn of the Dead<\/em>. \u00a0I can&#8217;t imagine this being more than a Netflix viewing for me. \u00a0Or maybe instead I&#8217;ll just rewatch Romero&#8217;s classic <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em>. \u00a0You can never go wrong with <em>NOTLD<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/05\/george-romero-zombie-film-horror-fantasia-market-frontieres-1201828430\/\">IndieWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Romero and zombie movie fans\u00a0might be happy to hear that a new &#8220;&#8230;of the Dead&#8221; movie is being prepped.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085","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=18085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18088,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18085\/revisions\/18088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}