In the interview, Romero talks about the genesis of LAND, and how with regards to the sequel, George says that star Simon Baker proposed shooting it in Austrailia (which is where Baker is from, coincidently). “[He] says that’s where we should shoot it. But yeah, there’s some rumbling about doing a sequel. Most of my zombie movies have been ten years apart, at least, in this case it was twenty, I’ve never had to do one right behind the other. If that happens I think I will probably just continue the same story – follow the truck, in which case, those characters (including Baker) would be back.”
As for if the sequel would head directly to video: “People have been asking me about that, I don’t know where that came from. My partner and I are trying to promote a direct to video series of zombie films, but it has nothing to do with LAND OF THE DEAD. I don’t think Universal would want to go the direct to video route for LAND OF THE DEAD 2. It’d be theatrical.” And as for that untitled project with Pegg? Romero says that he, Pegg and Edgar Wright are in the process of talking it out, though nothing’s materialized yet. Just keep your fingers crossed, folks.
Unfortunately, it’s not all good news, it seems. Case in point: DIAMOND DEAD, which looks to be dead for the moment. “I would love to do DIAMOND DEAD. It’s from an Australian Producer, a guy named Andrew Gaty. It’s my favourite, but nobody seems to get it. I love the project. It’s one of those things that everybody says ‘What’s this?’ It’s very hard to explain. It’s sort of like PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE; it’s a rock and roll spoof about a dead rock band. Everybody that reads it says ‘I don’t quite get it’. I would give my teeth…I would love to do it. I would love to do it while I can still move my bones a little.”
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