It seems that legendary zombie movie maker George A. Romero isn't just interested in movies. In an interview I conducted with him yesterday in support of his film Survival of the Dead, he admitted that he was interested in making a videogame, and that he had been approached by many companies about doing it, including Capcom.
"I'd like to do a game. I'd like to work with a gamer on it," Romero said after admitting that he doesn't play games very often, unlike fellow horror icon John Carpenter. "But everyone who has ever approached me, it's always been ... sell us your name and go home. I don't particularly want to do that."
Romero went on to say that when he was working on his eventually discarded Resident Evil movie screenplay and watching his assistant play through the game that he "had a lot of great ideas" for a game. Or at least ideas he thought would be great. "I'm not a gamer, so I don't know," he admitted. "What excites a gamer? I don't know. I think I could come up with a good story, and good situations -- places to hide sh*t ... We'll see what happens."
With the heavy social commentary in Romero's zombie films and his increasing fascination with domesticating the living dead, I think it would be interesting to see the direction a game with him behind it would take. Plus, games just don't hide sh*t well anymore.
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5:20 PM on 05.06.2010 | 
I dunno. Those words just don't strike me as "Fuck yeah! Creative freedom and all that jazz!" They kind of strike me as "Umm...well...if he wants to why not? I guess."
</sarcasm>
So surprised it was a deep funny addition to the series with some great and hillarious performances well written dialogue and gorey as hell. I hope he does get invovled at some point, I still think its wierd that there is disclaimer on the front of dead rising saying he doesn't support it.
For the record, I liked LotD. Not a great movie in its own right and that was some really heavy-handed political commentary (I like how right after I wrote that, I looked up at your last line and saw you used heavy-handed too. You rock, sir.), but it was neat seeing a continuation of the evolution concept that was slowly being drawn in the original trilogy.
As for Diary...yeah. I could have lived without that.
Frankly, I'd like to see what he can bring to the table in terms of a story for gameplay. Might damn well be fun. Good luck to him.
I laughed hard at this. "Places to hide shit"... we gamers are so easy to please.
They sure don’t have any of them......
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I can think of a hundred people I wish would take the Heavy Rain concept and run with it. It bothers me night and day to no end I swear.
I wish it was almost a Rock Band type thing where you take that style of gameplay, throw in about 30+ epic short stories, and keep more coming as DLC.
The concept of Cage's cinematic gameplay is so good. I just wish it would take off without Cage having to be involved with absolutely everything. A compilation by professional writers and directors would be in-fucking-credible.
Oh wait, I said nothing.
As for Romero's movies, he's the George Lucas of zombie movies, for better or worse. I'd love to see him do a game, but there's no way it could be any good.
Uh...
This dude is so overrated in movies alone, anyway. He has made entertaining B-movie zombie movies, that's it.
I know film geeks like to put him on a pedestal, but they are simply okay zombie movies made much better thanks to Tom Savini, not George Romero. The gore was mindblowing (no pun intended) at the time.
The acting, pace and plot are pretty poor.
Dawn Of The Dead remake, now THAT was a good movie!
Dawn and Day of the Dead being his peak, then Romero's been making the same movie over and over ever since.
How in any way is there any reason to see ANY excitement in him making a game?
Go make another zombie movie, old man. Heck, go star in one, you look like one these days.
But here's hoping he just stays away from games.
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That's what makes me interested in what he may have planned for a game as opposed to his latest films.
Although, I wonder if Romero had anything to do with the Land of the Dead game and the fist-fighting zombie farmer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSK0HZlQAA
Anyway, it would be pretty awesome to have a zombie game with some actual social satire. It's also good to see Romero doesn't want to be just another famous name that is slapped on a mediocre product.
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That would be awesome. Just imagine the grand finale with the bikers and zombies in complete chaos while the hare krishna zombie walks about.
I really think a videogame set in romero's world would be fantastic though...preferably in the night- day era. I remember that city of the dead game that was announced and canned, and the land of the dead game was crap, but I'd love to see his own videogame take on his dead universe.
REALLY? Even with the retarded characters? I mean one girl ends a tense stand off with groups holding guns by SHOUTING AND YELLING at them, which causes everyone to shoot the shit out of some guy...the guys who KNOW money is meaningless, yet leave their safe island cleared (mostly) of zombies with cash to go who knows where? even with the shitty irish accents?
Geez...I know not everyone liked survival but I find it near impossible to believe anyone genuinely enjoyed survival more than diary.
also @ all great games have a fart button
If you can't see how much influence Romero has had on pretty much every horror movie made since Night of the Living Dead than you are blind.. Dawn of the Dead Remake is better than Dawn? You can't be serious.
@ Adam
I havent peeped Survival yet but I actually liked Diary. It was kind of interesting how they filmed it from s POV perspective.
I will agree, the sound track was pretty creepy, and I LOVED the radio wave announcements...I really think something like that would add a hell of a lot to say left 4 dead.
spacemoose, I think the original dawn is WAY more influencial than the remake obviously...but the remake IS a better movie. I say that as someone who highly loves romero's movies (bar survival of the dead), but I would rather watch the dawn remake...as good as the original dawn is (and it is a good movie) time hasn't been kind to it as much as you might think.
I dont say that to bash romero or dawn, the guy insulting romero is clearly an idiot as romero helped shaped the movie and pop culture landscape with his vision of the zombie apocalypse, but I really do believe the dawn remake is superior....but nowhere near as influencial.
I also really liked survival of the dead...I saw it before REC (which is one of my favourite movies of all time). REC did the whole first person bit better, but I still thought survival was a really original and fun take on the genre and better than land (even though I enjoyed land). I really didnt get the hate for it...it was night of the living dead reimagined for a new generation and I thought it was great.
which is why survival being so shitty was kind of devestating :(
On another RE note, I would have LOVED to have seen romero's vision of Resident Evil on screen...I stand by the fact that people who hate it have not played the original game or payed much attention to the story, which was VERY close in many respects. certainly closer than the RE we got (which I liked...I just would have prefered romero's vision of it.) I LOVED his resident evil 2 ads.
And oooooh, his book comes out in the near future. Can't wait for that!
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"I'd like to do a game. I'd like to work with a gamer on it," Romero said after admitting that he doesn't play games very often, unlike fellow horror icon John Carpenter. "But everyone who has ever approached me, it's always been ... sell us your name and go home. I don't particularly want to do that."
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