George Romero talks Diamond Dead

It has been a LONG time since there has been any word on Diamond Dead. It is a project that Romero was working on that seemed to stall. The plot for the movie is an aspiring female singer wants to sing with the guys in a subpar garage band, who are on the brink of breaking. Unfortunately, she dashes her own hopes when she accidentally wipes out the entire band. She then makes a deal with Death to bring the group back, but they return as zombies. And they become an instant smash success. Sheila our LA writer had a chance to sit down with Romero who updated us on Diamond Dead and it would seem the long gestating project is back;

Diamond Dead, I would love to make that movie. I love the old script. It was an Australian producer. We had Ridley Scott behind it. It looked like it was really going to happen and nobody got it. We pitched it with Ridley and everybody said, "What is this?" It's like Phantom of the Paradise if you remember that movie, the old De Palma thing which I love. They didn't get this. It's about a dead rock band. Nobody got it. So it sort of blew away. Right before I came out here on this trip, I got a call from this guy who said, "We have a new script and I'd really like you to read it." I haven't read it yet, he said he would e-mail it to me but I'm not home right now, so.

Maybe it'll come back, I don't know. You never know, man. I can't tell you, there's so much shit that goes down on the internet. "Oh, George is doing this. Steve King, Buick 8, boom, all these projects." Some of them you work on. I did, there was this- - Steve wrote a book called The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I loved it. Again, you couldn't sell it for beanstalk beans because it's about a little girl. They said, "Well, how do you put a star in here? It's a little girl."

I am not honestly that keen on the idea of Diamond Dead but Romero is an icon for me and has created an awful lot of great zombie movies. I have high hopes he can deliver the goods!