MORE ON DAWN OF THE DEAD REMAKE
In an exclusive interview with CINESCAPE magazines July issue, SCOOBY DOO scribe James Gunn had more than a few things to say about his hopes, and work, to bring a remake of George Romeros classic zombie flick DAWN OF THE DEAD to the big screen.
Eric Newman called me up at Beacon [Pictures] and he said, Do you like DAWN OF THE DEAD? recalled Gunn for us. I said, Yeah, its one of my favorite all-time movies, and he said, Well, Ill buy the rights if you want to write it. It just hit me right there and I said OK, because I can see it being a great film.
While Gunn is excited in revisiting a film from the trilogy (DAWN is part two, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is the original with DAY OF THE DEAD being the third and final flick) hes also excited about infusing the remake with some fresh ideas, and avoid the pitfall he saw Gus Van Sant fall into with his PSYCHO remake.
I took the central concept, which is people stuck in a mall during an apocalypse of flesh-eating corpses, he says. Other than that, its a lot different. I think that the original DAWN OF THE DEAD worked perfectly with the themes that it was working with, and theres no reason to do the same movie in that way. So what I was really interested in doing was creating a small society. Theres more people in my mall.
For the full story on the pending remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD, pick up a copy of Julys CINESCAPE and read Scott Colluras piece.
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