Post by Miss Dee on Dec 11, 2009 7:46:38 GMT -5
From the Post Gazette's Mad About Movies blog:
Dec 09 2009
George Romero novel due in summer 2010
Bob Hoover, our eagle-eyed book editor, spotted this in a catalog for 2010: "The Living Dead," a novel by George A. Romero.
Here's the description from Grand Central Publishing: "In San Diego, an autopsy seems routine until the corpse sits up and begins to walk - after all of his organs have been removed. Suddenly, the rules of this world have been rewritten and the dead now walk the Earth.
"In Atlanta, a reporter covers the epidemic, showing viewers glimpses of increasing chaos from across the globe. Nowhere, it seems, is safe. The captain of an aircraft carrier hopes to save his crew from the disease by remaining at sea, but seemingly within moments zombies are wreaking havoc on the ship.
" ‘The Living Dead' follows different groups of people as they react to the crisis, working together or, for some, using their limited knowledge of zombies to try to survive. But is survival even possible? Or desirable?"
The hardcover book is due in July and should have a suggested price of $25.99. Based on the catalog entry, it sounds like Romero will attend Comic-Con next summer in San Diego where he will be hailed as a hero, no doubt.
Romero, director of "Night of the Living Dead" and other trailblazing movies, is a New York native now living in Toronto. But Pittsburghers still like to claim him as their own. This is where it all started, after all.
The catalog tease says the novel "will deliver exactly what fans of the living dead have been waiting for: the ground rules of the zombie realm, written by the founder of the genre."
Romero's latest movie, "Survival of the Dead," will arrive in theaters in 2010 and should be coming out on DVD just about the time "The Living Dead" novel springs to life. So to speak.
Dec 09 2009
George Romero novel due in summer 2010
Bob Hoover, our eagle-eyed book editor, spotted this in a catalog for 2010: "The Living Dead," a novel by George A. Romero.
Here's the description from Grand Central Publishing: "In San Diego, an autopsy seems routine until the corpse sits up and begins to walk - after all of his organs have been removed. Suddenly, the rules of this world have been rewritten and the dead now walk the Earth.
"In Atlanta, a reporter covers the epidemic, showing viewers glimpses of increasing chaos from across the globe. Nowhere, it seems, is safe. The captain of an aircraft carrier hopes to save his crew from the disease by remaining at sea, but seemingly within moments zombies are wreaking havoc on the ship.
" ‘The Living Dead' follows different groups of people as they react to the crisis, working together or, for some, using their limited knowledge of zombies to try to survive. But is survival even possible? Or desirable?"
The hardcover book is due in July and should have a suggested price of $25.99. Based on the catalog entry, it sounds like Romero will attend Comic-Con next summer in San Diego where he will be hailed as a hero, no doubt.
Romero, director of "Night of the Living Dead" and other trailblazing movies, is a New York native now living in Toronto. But Pittsburghers still like to claim him as their own. This is where it all started, after all.
The catalog tease says the novel "will deliver exactly what fans of the living dead have been waiting for: the ground rules of the zombie realm, written by the founder of the genre."
Romero's latest movie, "Survival of the Dead," will arrive in theaters in 2010 and should be coming out on DVD just about the time "The Living Dead" novel springs to life. So to speak.