First up, it wouldn’t matter who was announced as the Director for the remake of Day of the Dead, I would always wonder why it wasn’t George A. Romero, so anyone would be a disappointment. According to Movies Online it’s definitely not Romero:
According to Variety the Millennium Films and Emmett/Furla Films remake will be directed by Steve Miner. He is know for helming movies like “Friday the 13th Part 2”, “Halloween H20” and “Lake Placid”. Jeffrey Reddick (“Final Destination”) is writing the script…
…Avi Lerner [from the Production Company] said that they are “very enthusiastic about the marketplace’s continued demand for new and exciting horror pictures, and we are please to have Steve helm this.”
Mmmm, this is not new though, it’s a remake. A remake of a classic film that forms part of a series of classic films made by a classic horror Director, and despite that same Director remaking the first of his classics, this next one is being handed to another Director.
Mmmm…that doesn’t sit entirely well with me as a member of the audience, and one of the demographic you are just referring to, and it doesn’t really fit in that statement of new and exciting. What do you think? Is this good or bad news for Miner’s assignment? Is it a travesty that Romero is not back in this one?
