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Tom Savini's Involvement in 'Land of the Dead'

courtesy of the horror channel

Now that George Romero's Land of the Dead is finally off the ground and almost ready to begin shooting, the cast announcements should be coming in shortly. This weekend at Rue Morgue's Festival of Fear, Tom Savini talked a little bit about the fourth zombie flick and his involvement, which is quit interesting. Read on for the scoop...

The Horror Channel writes, "During a panel at this past weekend's Rue Morgue Festival of Fear convention up in Toronto, Tom Savini gave the crowd quite an earful in terms of what his role in the 4th installment of Romero's legendary film series could be.

Picture this if you will: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of the last "living strongholds" on the planet, is completely cordoned off. Droves of hungry zombies are clawing at the city?s borders, desperately trying to get a taste of the only "fresh meat" around. The city is patrolled and protected by a tank called "The Dead Reckoning." Every tank needs a crew. Every crew needs a leader. Enter Tom Savini.

Savini is in negotiations to co-star in the film as one of the leaders of a salvage team that goes out in the Dead Reckoning to search for supplies and/or survivors. It gets more interesting than this though, folks. Savini mentioned that one of George's plans for him is to run into and kill Blades, his original character from Dawn. As you can imagine, Blades is pretty much the worse for wear and will have a bloated look as he met his "earthly" demise in a fountain some time ago.

According to Ryan's report, nothing is official right now; this is just what's on the table. George has stated that no one has officially signed onto the project as of yet except for KNB, which will be providing what I am sure will be the best Dead FX ever. Romero has also stated that he's very interested in having Asia Argento onboard for the project, but again, nothing is for sure."

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I have a question. Are these going to be fast zombies? a la 28 Days Later or the old fashioned "dead" zombies in which they are all slow and they are easy to kill.

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28 days later didnt start the fast zombies. Anyways though yes they will be fast,slow, smart and dumb zombie a la' return of the living dead.

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I know they didn't but it was the most recent and well known.

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not more known then return of the living dead.

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Who's doing the make-up/effects/gore?

The Zombies are going to be fast? I'm sad now.
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Who's doing the make-up/effects/gore?

The Zombies are going to be fast? I'm sad now.

we dont know for sure who's doing what. why are you sad that the zombies will be fast? it worked for the dawn of the dead remake,return of the living dead, and 28 days later with slow zombies we are not getting that scare factor like we had back in the day with the current batch of zombie movies.

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Yeah fast zombies are scarrier.

If we ever get zombies on this planet... I pray it won't be fast zombies.

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DayLahs
we dont know for sure who's doing what. why are you sad that the zombies will be fast? it worked for the dawn of the dead remake,return of the living dead, and 28 days later with slow zombies we are not getting that scare factor like we had back in the day with the current batch of zombie movies.

I don't find horror movies scary in general. So it's not about scary for me. I like the good ol' fashioned Zombie death/kill. Highest chance for the most amount of gore possible. And when they're slow they're easier to kill. And, I dunno, I'm a sucker for realism, and when they move slowly it seems more realistic to me. Even though most of the time they don't have time to decompose.

I do like a fast zombie movie from time to time (28 days, though not really zombies; and dawn of the dead remake) but with a Romero it almost feels like sacrilege.
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I have heard that there will be no fast-moving zombies and I believe that KNB EFX will be doing the make-up and gore. I would find a link but I am in a hurry tonight (packing).
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Ohhh the big college bound man hey? You leaving tomorrow?

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I am leaving.... like.. next Tuesday but I have to get this stuff all packed and ready to be shipped and/or stuffed into my car by then. No trailer, no u-haul just me, my car, UPS and a plastic Jesus I've welded to my dashboard. Thanks for noticing

As for this movie, I'm peeing my pants with anticipation. Seriously. Stand back.
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Yeah I can't wait either.

Zombie movies kick it like old school.

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