Well we've ridden the sparkly vampire wave and come out on the other side. However, the rising tsunami over the last couple years involves zombies and World War Z's recent box office success apparently has studios digging through the vault for older films to reboot. Unfortunately this time the door has swung open on director George A. Romero.
"Deadline" and the L.A. Times reports that producers Lati Grobman and Christa Campbell (Texas Chainsaw 3D) have snatched up the rights to Romero's 1985 classic Day of the Dead. The two have expressed that they want to keep the reboot as close to the original as possible.
Honestly, I really see no need for this. Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake was excellent but 2008's Day of the Dead was flat out awful. Look I love the zombie trend over the last couple of years. AMC's "The Walking Dead" is amazing and Zombieland ranks high on my list of favorite zombie movies. However sometimes you just have to let sleeping zombies lie.
If Grobman and Campbell can make Day of the Dead into a quality film great. Unfortunately I am of a mind (like "Deadline") that the two saw the box office success of combining zombies and the military and pounced. I hate to be so cynical about the whole thing but sometimes it's hard not to be jaded. Guess we'll find out for sure when and if Day of the Dead hits theaters.
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