WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY

George A. Romero

PRODUCED BY

Universal Studios (DAWN OF THE DEAD 2004)

CAST

Simon Baker (THE RING 2)

Asia Argento (XXX) -- Note to readers:  Dario, the producer of the original DAWN OF THE DEAD a.k.a. ZOMBIE is this lovely ladies father.

John Leguizamo (SPAWN)

Dennis Hopper (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSCRE 2)

Robert Joy (THE DARK HALF, AMYTIVILLE 3D)

CAMEO BY

Tom Savini

MAKE-UPS EFFECTS AND ZOMBIES BY

KNB Effects

FILMING LOCATIONS --

Toronto, Canada (DAWN OF THE DEAD 2004 and RESIDENT EVIL APOCAPLYSE)

WHEN DOES FILMING BEGIN?

OCT. 11, 2004

WHEN DOES FILMING END?

DEC. 7, 2004.

STATUS -- COMPLETE.

ROMERO AND CREW FINISHED A WEEK EARLY.

THE FILM IS CURRENTLY PLAYING THE VARIOUS FILM FESTIVALS.

RELEASE DATE -- (America) June 14, 2005

AVAILABLE ON DVD IN UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT in America as of OCT. 18, 2005!

WWW.LANDOFTHEDEADMOVIE.NET

Alternate Versions for Land of the Dead (2005) Available in an uncut and unrated version on dvd, restoring both gore and dialogue cut from the theatrical version. In the trailer when Kaufman says the line: "The zombies, man. They creep me out", he is standing alone with his arms against his sides. In the theatrical cut however, the scene is slightly different in that Kaufman is picking his nose when he says the line. There are also a couple of his henchmen in the background. To secure an M18 rating in Singapore, two scenes needed to be axed. The first being the scene where a zombie stomps on the head of another, and the second depicting the decapitation of a zombie towards the end of the show. The uncut version is rated R21. The Unrated Director's Cut has a scene missing from the UK cinema release. Just before Cholo visits Kauffman for the final time he intervenes in a disturbance at Kauffman's neighbor's' house where we see that a man has hanged himself and his son tries to cut him down only to be bitten in the neck when his father reanimates as a zombie. Cholo destroys the zombie by bashing its head in while the distraught widow shrieks in the background. Crazy Credits for Land of the Dead (2005) The old 1920s Universal pictures logo begins the film. Trivia for Land of the Dead (2005) George A. Romero was so impressed with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) that he asked them to appear in this, the fourth part of his "Dead" series, as the "photo booth" zombies in the carnival/bar-room sequence. One working title for the film was "Dead Reckoning" but it was changed as to avoid confusion with the Humphrey Bogart film of the same name. There were three titles before "Land of the Dead" was chosen: "Dead City", "Dead Reckoning" and "Night of the Living Dead: Dead Reckoning". Susan Wloszczyna, a reporter for USA Today, appeared as one of the zombies. She was there interviewing her fellow zombies as well as the director. She spent nearly an hour and 45 minutes in the make-up chair. A non-union zombie would make CDN per hour while a union zombie, for a minimum of 8 hours, would make CDN. Asia Argento (Slack) is the daughter of noted Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento, who was the co-producer of one of this film's prequels: Dawn of the Dead (1978). 'George A. Romero' intended to make this film in his home town Pittsburgh - the story is set there and it's where he made his other zombie films. However his producers insisted on filming Toronto in order to take advantage of Canadian tax incentives. This is the fourth film in George Romero's zombie series which Romero says it takes place after Night of the Living Dead with no specific time frame. The last zombie film he wrote and directed was Day of the Dead (1985) which was released twenty years ago. Partly based on the original, much longer script for Day of the Dead. The view of the zombies rising from out of the river is an homage to the classic scene from _Carnival Of Souls (1962)_ where the dead rise out of the salt lake before the dance sequence. The rifle carried by Charlie is an M-1 Carbine, a weapon developed during World War 2. It was noted for it's superb accuracy (for a carbine) and also hated by the Marines for its puny stopping power. The name of the military vehicle mainly used in the movie is Dead Reckoning, one of the film's original titles. When Charlie licks his thumb and wets the front sight of his rifle, a reference to Sergeant York (1941). "Fiddler's Green" is a song about the place cavalrymen go when they die. It is located "Halfway down the trail to hell" and in the end advocates suicide by pistol when death is certain and the "hostiles" are closing in. This song originated in England. It speaks of a place where fisherman go if they don't go to hell. It dates back to at least the 19th century and is still sung to this day. It found its way to the U.S.A with the help of Cornish settlers.

Memorable Quotes from
Land of the Dead (2005)

[from trailer]
Kaufman: Zombies, man. They creep me out.

Kaufman: In a world where the dead are returning to life, the word "trouble" loses much of its meaning.

Kaufman: We do not negotiate with terrorists!

Charlie: What happened, Riley, did you get fucked?

[repeated line]
Kaufman: You have no right!

[last lines]
Riley: Take us north.

Charlie: Nice shooting.
Riley: Good shooting, Charlie. No such thing as nice shooting.

Kaufman: [talking about Cholo] You're dead. You really are *dead*!

Special Forces Leader: What the hell is going on here?
Riley: Someone shot the little fat man.

Manolete: [about the rapidly adapting zombies] Do you really think they can cross the river?

Mike: It's like a bad dream.
Charlie: I have bad dreams. Hell, yes. Just look at me, you can tell I have terrible dreams.

Slack: [talking about Riley] You take care of him, huh?
Charlie: Hell, yeah. He pulled me out of the fire. It was bad... Just look at me, you can tell it was bad.

Pillsbury: [Motown is hotwiring a car] Yellow to red!
Motown: What the fuck does a Samoan know about hotwiring a fucking car?
Pillsbury: 50,000 cars stolen in Samoa every year.
Motown: Well, a million in Detroit.
Pillsbury: Detroit has 50 million cars. Samoa, 50,000. Every one stolen.

Cholo: Looks like God left the phone off the hook.

'High Noon' Soldier: Stench, high noon.

Mike: They're pretending to be alive...
Riley: Isn't that what we're doing? Pretending to be alive?

Riley: [about the fireworks] Put some flowers in the graveyard.
Charlie: "Put some flowers in the graveyard". How come you call them that, Riley? I don't get it. There here ain't the kind of flowers you lay on the ground, these here are sky flowers. Way up in heaven...
Riley: That's why I love you, Charlie, 'cause you still believe in heaven.

Pillsbury: I came here to do something. So, we are gonna stand around, or we are gonna do something?

Slack: Charlie, why do you lick your rifle?
Charlie: Catches the light.
Slack: What light? How can you see anything?
Charlie: Good eye.

Cholo: [a shot is fired] What the hell's that?
Brubaker: Oh, that's just target practice.
[scene cuts to soldiers]
Soldier: There's nothing there, man.
[he's attacked by Big Daddy and screams]
Cholo: OK, so what the hell's that, screaming practice?

Slack: What's your story, Riley?
Riley: I don't have one, nothing bad ever happened to me.

Charlie: [to Slack] Riley likes to be alone. He might take me, because he says being with me is just like being alone.

Cholo: How many times have I told you, Riley, stop banging chicks with more problems than you.

Riley: [Slack shoots open the door, startling him] What the fuck are you doing?
Slack: I'm making myself useful!
Riley: [gets attacked by a zombie] *Now* shoot!

Cholo: [Riley shows up] You were always the smart one, Riley, much smarter than me.
Riley: [under his breath] Not saying much.

Cholo: [to Mouse] There are three things a man must do alone - be born, die and, well, we all know the other one.

Board Member: Hey, what's in those bags?
Kaufman: Oh, look, over there!
[pulls him down and shoots him]