Simon Pegg interviews George Romero !

If there is one thing to make our, still waiting, UK Zombie fans happy till they finally get to see "Land of the Dead" on September 23rd, it is this news. End of August the Fright Fest took place in London and the first day was dedicated to the Guest of Honor, George Romero. Showing all his Zombie films from "Night" to "Land".

And whats better than getting the most popular British Zombie movie celebrity to interview the man while he is there. So those cool guys from TimeOut managed to get Simon "Shaun of the Dead" Pegg. And he discusses Zombie movies with the man that invented this genre.

So read on for a few clips from this really great interview:

Simon Pegg: My first question has to be: are you sick of talking about zombies?

George Romero: Uh, yeah.

SP: Of course. 'Cause it's been 37 years since 'Night…' came out. I was wondering if, when you were making the first one, you ever realised that you'd return to the story as often as you did.

GR: No. I resisted doing another one for a while. The movie actually made some money when it first came out, but I didn't want to get typecast; I didn't want to just do horror. I didn't think of them as zombies. It was the '60s, man, we were just smoking and talking about politics. It was about revolution. I wanted to see what happened on that first night and how people dealt with it.

SP: Well, they have to be because they've got to keep running. I was going to ask what your thoughts were on the 'Dawn…' remake.

GR: It was better than I expected. I thought it was a good action film. The first 15, 20 minutes were terrific, but it sort of lost its reason for being. It was more of a video game. I'm not terrified of things running at me; it's like Space Invaders. There was nothing going on underneath.

TimeOut: Has the recent batch of zombie films offered any inspiration?

GR: You know, it doesn't. I'm not a student that way; I don't rush out and see it when it comes out. The simplest way to put it is: I don't really care.

TO: What was your take on 'Shaun…'?

GR: I just loved it, man; I just loved it. I had no idea it existed. This guy from Universal brought a print to a local cinema in Florida. I called these guys right away; I thought it was just wonderful.

If you want to know what Simon thought when he heard that George Romero loves his movie, why he bit a woman on the "Land of the Dead" set and why George Romero said "Oh, Grow up", to Quentin Tarantino you have to read the whole article here.