Romero Reveals Dream Projects
February 14th, 2008 | by admin |Original Post here: Snikkkt!
Source: Scifi.com
George A. Romero, who returns to his zombie roots with the upcoming horror film Diary of the Dead, told SCI FI Wire that another sequel in his popular franchise is a very real possibility. The legendary filmmaker revealed that he hopes to one day make a zombie comedy and also has two “dream” projects that he doubts will ever come to pass.
“I have this balls-out comedy zombie thing I have wanted to do for three years,” Romero said in an interview. “It’s basically the coyote and the road runner. It’s one human and one zombie. You can do a lot of damage to a zombie, and it still lives. So I just had this idea that I’d love to do that [as] almost a cartoon. That’s the one that’s closest to my heart, but I don’t know if anyone’s ever going to get it enough to say, ‘OK, we’ll finance that.’”
As for the dream projects, Romero’s choices may surprise fans of the zombie auteur. “The movie I have always wanted to make for some obscure, unknown reason–probably because as a kid I grew up with [Johnny] Weissmuller–is Tarzan of the Apes,” Romero said.”“I’d love to do two things, actually. I’d love to do Tarzan of the Apes the way [Edgar Rice] Burroughs wrote the original book, and I’d love to do [Bram[ Stoker’s Dracula.”
Romero said that, to his way of thinking, the two classic genre books have never been faithfully adapted to the cinema, though they have been the source of many movies over the decades. “[Dracula has] never been accurate to the novel,” Romero argued. “Those are the two things I’d love to do. I got close on Dracula. No one is ever even going to talk to me about Tarzan. They’re really from my youth. They’re childhood dreams. They’re not going to happen, but I can dream.” Diary of the Dead opens on Feb. 15. –Ian Spelling
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