A week ago it was revealed that another remake of Day Of The Day was in the works, which is the result of the fact that Romero’s movies are all owned by different people and at least for the original trilogy, he has no control over what is done with them (which is especially true for Night Of The Living Dead, as a legal issue means it’s now in the public domain).
So not only are we getting another Day Of The Dead, but at Comic-Con producer Richard P. Rubinstein has revealed that he’s in the final stages of converting director Romero’s 1978 zombie classic Dawn Of The Dead into 3D. Rubinstein says that 91 minutes of the 126-minute movie converted already.
The producer says, “It is proving to be more 3D friendly than many films, because George’s style was to compose within the frame, rather than across frames. That means there is a lot of action within each frame, from front to back and it makes the conversion process more friendly. It’s like you’re moving the audience closer to the movie. What I didn’t want to do is not edit anything George did in his original movie, and nothing has been altered in this process.”
The conversion process has been in the works since 2007, but the producer revealed he isn’t sure what he plans on doing with the 3D film once it is finished sometime this autumn. That’s despite the fact they’ve already spent $6 million on it, nearly 10 times the film original $685,000 budget.
We’d imagine many Romero fans will be livid at the news that once more someone if playing with one of the films (although we wouldn’t be surprised if they take a look if it ever gets to cinemas).
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