Interview with Greg Nicotero of KNB

The script has been probably gone through three or four drafts, and usually what happens is that you have a script, and as they rewrite it, it gets pared down and all the good stuff gets taken out. All of a sudden, it’s a skeleton of what it was originally supposed to be. But in this case, the script has gotten better. Every time George has gone in and done another pass, it’s gotten more of the Romero flavor. I can’t remember a time when that’s ever happened. I’ve read several drafts of this script, and it gets better every time.

It’s basically taking the idea of where we left Bub in Day of the Dead, where there’s a glimmer of intelligence and they’re not just mindless devouring animals. This movie takes that to another level. So a lot of the lead zombies are all gonna be cast and they’re gonna be performers, so we’ll get a lot of that sort of Howard Sherman performance, which really brought the character of Bub to life. I mean, he wasn’t just a guy in a rubber face -- people genuinely love that character.

It’s funny for me to listen to people talk about Bub and know that George’s movie is going to come out, and twenty years from now, there could be another iconic zombie that could be created based on George’s vision, the character, the makeup design, and the actor.

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