Pics from Romero’s New Zombie Flick Released

Two news sources snagged a couple of pics from George Romero’s new zombie movie, tentatively titled ‘Island of the Dead’. Â  The first one comes to us from USA Today, and it shows a female zombie lumbering along.

The second picture comes from Bloody Disgusting, and it shows a little more zombie action.

Romero’s newest zombie film takes place on a remote island and follows the citizens who live there when the zombie epidemic occurs. Â  In the article that ran in USA Today along with the above pic, Romero unveiled a bit more on the film’s story.

“It’s about tribalism,” says Romero about the story that unfolds on a small island a couple of weeks after the original outbreak in 1968’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’. Â  “There are two factions. It’s the idea that even when faced with a crisis, tribal concerns about power control people’s motives.”

He also commented on the film’s tone and how it will be significantly different than ‘Diary of the Dead’.

“‘Diary’  was like ‘Night’. It had a brooding personality,” he says. This one is more like 1978’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’,  “with a lot of action.”

If I may be so bold as to editorialize here a bit, ‘Diary’ was in no way like ‘Night’. Â  Sorry, George. Â  I don’t buy that.

Source: USA Today, Bloody Disgusting