Dawn of the Dead remake by Universal Pictures. Cast: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Hannah Lochner, and Kevin Zegers.

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DAWN OF THE DEAD starts filming
Picture shooting in Canada

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Dateline: Monday, June 16, 2003

By: PATRICK SAURIOL
By: News Editor
Source: Universal Pictures

Principal photography on DAWN OF THE DEAD has begun. Universal Pictures
issued a press release today stating that Zack Snyder's picture has begun
shooting in and around the city of Toronto, Canada. The movie is scheduled
for release sometime in 2004.

Universal described the remake's storyline as follows:

"In DAWN OF THE DEAD, an unexplained plague has decimated the world's
population and yet...the dead aren't dying. They've become zombies, stalking
endlessly in a constant quest to feed on the flesh and blood of the few
remaining living.

"A ragtag group of desperate survivors in a Wisconsin town seek refuge in a
large indoor shopping mall, where they must learn not only to protect
themselves from the ever-increasing zombie horde, but also to co-exist with
each other as one of the last bastions of humanity. Sealed off from the rest
of what used to be the world, the group uses every available resource (both
within and without) in their against-all-odds fight to remain alive and
human."

Universal also beefed up the known list of crewmembers working on the film,
which now includes director of photography Matt Leonetti (2 FAST 2 FURIOUS),
production designer Andrew Neskoromny (THE CORE), costume designer Denise
Cronenberg (SPIDER), prosthetics make-up designer David Anderson (both MEN
IN BLACK films) and editor Niven Howie (LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING
BARRELS). The film's producers are original DAWN producer Richard P.
Rubinstein, Marc Abraham (SPY GAME) and Eric Newman (THE EMPEROR'S CLUB).
Exec producers are Tom Bliss (THE HURRICANE), Armyan Bernstein (AIR FORCE
ONE) and Dennis E. Jones (VIRUS).

YEAH, BABY.....YEAH!!!!!!

Interesting!

Why would someone bankroll a remake of a movie that sucked?

cuz it sucked in STYLE....zombie movies ROCK!!!!

They wouldn't.

It didn't.

Aim for their heads!

Any movie that has an M16, raiding a post SHTF gun store for supplies, and target practice in a post SHTF shopping mall DOES NOT SUCK.

Do push ups ‘till I get tired.

WOO HOO!!!

More training footage to help me practice my SHTF maneuvers!

Just more proof that Hollyweird is totally out of new ideas.

Rusty

KICK ASS!!!

To all you guys that don't like zombie movies, you're just afraid of the living dead.  Admit it.  You can't get past your fear while in denial.

They're comming for you Barbara....BAAHHBAAARRRAAAHHHHH!

They are also doing a re-make of The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre.

Wasn't "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The New Generation" the remake? It was real bad. It could have been partially redeemed if they showed some titties though.

OK, someone give me a breakdown of the Zombie movies.  It was about a decade ago that my friends and myself rented them all and watched them, marathon style.  Like for instance, which one was the first, which one was in the mall,...etc.

Ok here is the lowdown on the George Romero "Dead Trilogy".

Night Of The Living Dead (1968): Black and white. Takes place in a isolated farmhouse in the Pennsylvania coutryside.

Dawn Of The Dead (1979): Color. Takes place in the Monroeville, Penn mall.

Day Of The Dead (1985): Color. Takes place in a Florida underground storage facility.

Night Of The Living Dead '90 (1990)- Color. A remake of the original black and white film.

How can they do a re-make of a documentary?

No it wasn't a re-make. In fact they originally titled it Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4.

Anyway here is a link to the new one due out 2004.

[url]http://us.imdb.com/Title?0324216[/url]

Well, George Romero signed an agreement with the Darrow Chemical Company and the feds that he was only allowed to fictionalize stories based on the 1966 2-4-5 Trioxin Pennsylvania VA Hospital incident. This explains why the big studios don't want to help him with his 4th dead film due to the threat of lawsuits.

Oh by the way, George Romero has absolutely nothing to do with this movie. John Russo, one of the producers of Dawn sold the rights to Universal and is trying to sell the rights to Day. It kind of sucks, but there just ain't any good zombie movies coming out these days.

what if they're alien zombies?