The whole world has officially gone topsy turvey. Kevin Smith is talking about doing a horror movie and now George Romero is signed up to do a movie without any zombies.
Romero is best known as the director of such horror classics as Night of the Living Dead and a whole slew of zombie genre defining sequels. To be fair, he has ventured outside zombie-land before, it's just that no one watches when he does.
Maybe this time will be different. The Hollywood Reporter says Romero is set to direct a movie called Solitary Isle, based after the same named short story by Dark Water and The Ring author Koji Suzuki. It's actually a part of a group of short stories, of which those other films were a part. Yep, it's another Japanese import. Now that they've conquered George A. Romero, the Japanese officially own the horror genre.
They also own the tentacle porn genre, but don't expect to see that any time in a theater near you.
Solitary Isle is about an expedition to a deserted island which turns deadly when explorers encounter a vague, deadly, unseen force. Hmm… is there any way George can turn that into zombies. Probably not.
