R.I.P. George A. Romero

R.I.P George Romero 1940 - 2017

Day of the dead wasn't bad at all. I actually think it's his most underrated zombie film.

It was a dream of mine to meet him. When I did he was so kind and talkative. We had a great time.

the very first episode of TWD when Rick wakes up at the hospital was a masterclass in horror!!

The entire Walking Dead universe only exists because of George.

His 1978 film, "Martin" is one of my favorites.

It's so cool to see George Romero talking about TWD.

I love The Walking Dead and I love George A. romero's films.

Well guess what? The Walking Dead got me into George Romero movies.

R.I.P George romero

R.I.P genius George Romero.

Rest in Peace legend.

Rest in peace George A Romero

I doubt anyone here has read the comics and I may be alone on this but the Comics are far superior than the TV show.

R.I.P George

Romero was one of my hero's. RIP

I love the Walking Dead! I read in the Vol. 2 GN that Kirkman's Walkers were based on Romero's Living dead, and I am about to watch Night of The Living Dead in a few minutes because of that. I'm exited that there is more Zombie action!

The Walking Dead was a great show up to season 4. It's problem isn't the writing as the comics are well established and solid. It's problem is budget and scheduling and it's artistry and craft suffers as a result. If you look back to conflicts with The Governer and even the shoot out with the criminals were Rick was originally shot in ep 1. It was cinematic, look dangerous and had a sense of realism. Having just watched the episode of the attack on the Sanctuary in season 8, honestly it was like watching an episode of the A Team. They were rattling off rounds everywhere and acheiving very little, in early seasons they would have depicted carnage, here I saw a round hit a car but left no hole. It's directing is off and it's production design is off.

R.I.P. God bless your immortal soul George, for you are truly the Walt Disney of zombie movies 😇😇😇

"I wish they would have called me." RIP George Romero

Rip the Legend

Legendary guy Rip respect from England

Hadn't for George Romero we wouldn't have zombies the way they are to this day R.I.P George Romero the king of zombies

i agree with Romero, the first 2 seasons were great, it was about survival then. when 3 came with woodbury, thought it was okay but im pissed off with season 4, because this season will be about him, too. in the latest episode i saw that he is going to form another camp and so im thinking, when is it going to be over with him?!? melodrama seems to have taken over the show, i want to seem them fight the plague. i hope next season will be different and there is also too much focus on carl.

Rest in peace movie legend

Rest in peace George A Romero I salute you

RIP Great one. I enjoyed the Romero movies as much as I enjoy TWD universe.

77 years

Rest in Paradise

R.I.P Legend

Love you Mr Romero

Right on, Roger. No one mentions (few have seen) "The Last Man on earth" with the lumbering zombies surrounding the house with imagery so similar to "Night of the Living dead" the two films could be intercut without detection. (Include also 1965 's "Carnival of Souls" as a clone). It's sad how the commercial brainwashing is so effective that younger "zombie" fans assume "Walking dead" is ground-breaking and superior without watching the originals and making up their own minds.

RIP sleep easy🙏❤

Rip George in our memory

What a legend

I find what he said about TWD to be fascinating, due to the Image Comics pilot originally taking place in the same universe as Night Of The Living Dead. The famous news report from the movie is featured in the pilot, as Rick and Carol (soon to be Lori) are watching the report on their TV. Now that I think about it, Mercer might have gotten his name from Mercer County that was mentioned in the report. It's funny that Romero was interested in working on the series because Day Of The Dead is Robert Kirkman's favorite of Romero's zombie movies.

Well, actually if there is one thing that both his Romero's films as well as Kirk's series(TWD) did share was how the recently unburied dead came back. No bite was necessary just die. For as long as the brain remained intact unless you either took a bullet or massive blunt force trauma to the head, you would reanimate.

Respect.

I wish it wasn't cut off here, I want to hear him talk about Fred Rogers, as I am sure the vast majority of people i the world would, no matter who is doing the talking, when they speak kindly off Fred, you take note.

I wish he would reconsider because I think he would really enjoy the atmosphere.

George romero one of the best independent filmmakers gone but not forgotten his style of movie making was great and fabulous his movies masterpieces dawn of the dead 1978 and day of the dead 1985 his best without a doubt put on celluloid a true giant of filmmaking his collaboration with make up fx legend Tom savini great RiP George romero you were great and a legend of horror film making ❤😂🎉😅😊you are gone but not forgotten love and peace man.

Rest in peice george andrew romero.

RIP George Romero

without george a romero..there wld be no walking dead

George Love it!!!!!

That guy deserves a zombie animated movie dedicated to him, he would have made zombies in walking dead better, I also I think that a animated movie with zombie would be cool

R.I.P GEORGE ROMERO

Bravo!!!

RIP George A. Romero.

Rip George 2019

Wheres this full interview?

and with 3 highly succesfull seasons already on DVD/Bluray (BRD) w/ the walking dead and a 4th season in production, and a huge market for other items related to the walking dead (and im fairly sure there will be a 5th, and possible 6th season) i mean the SHOW is following the comic book content fairly closely and they are only about 40% complete when compared ot the comic strip (they deviate alittle from the comic book series) a few things aside, it stays faithful to the original material

Far as I'm concerned the first few episodes are really great. Despite not having the social commentary, I still found it be really compelling drama. Now it's an over bloated jerk-fest.

Romero made horror movies that doubled as social commentary. The Walking Dead is just a soap opera with blood and gore in it.

So am I seriously the first one to comment on the fact that guys name is George Stroumboulopoulos??

Yeah, TWD creators really should've contacted and invited Mr Romero to help build the series but oh well... Don't blame him for turning it down.

Yes, you are right.

That's why The Walking Dead is so great.

RIP

Oh no George, you might be angry, but either drop that stagelight or go to the water!!

Also there are annoyances in the 'Walking Dead' some of the characters are just plain annoying and whiny and still alive, Like the kid, the chinese guy, the only characters I really like are the two brothers the older woman and Hershel. Even for a B movie production the characters in George's films were really memorial and likeable, there isn't one character I thought that I couldn't stand or thought didn't belong in the film. He definitely knew what he was doing.

r.i.p Romero. :(

no one gives us ZOMBIE movies like george romero what a genius

And some vampire fiction writers actually do use the concept of vampire virus, and vampire venom, and infection for their stories.

I don't know why, but George A Romeo reminds me of Hayao Miyazaki😅

Supposedly back in the late 90s, George was originally assigned to direct the movie for Resident Evil. But unfortunately, according to an article I've seen in a magazine, Capcom and the movie company they got in touch with didn't like the script George had written for the movie and that it was nothing like the game and had no connection with it. they just didn't want to use it. So they fired him.

I think it's a real shame that the younger (YOLO) generation don't appreciate Romeo's masterpieces and its undertone messages/meanings . All they want are choreographed gunfights and Jersey shore-like drama. The Walking Dead ruined the entire zombie legacy. Now the diehard fans/old timers are forced to put up with butchered, Hollywood crap like Brad pitt's World War Z.

Rip George Romero

I wish George Romero was the director of The Walking Dead😢😢

Rip

Professional zombie movie director.

Poor, poor, Romero. He created the zombie genre and made two excellent zombie movies. Its been downhill starting from Day of the Dead, with his latest movies, complete and utter garbage. Now he's old, jealous, and bitter about it. What a shame...

GEORGE A ROMERO'S "Mister Rogers Operation", a cult classic!

Rip romero 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟

does Romero live in Canada still ?

walking dead premise can be summed up in just one Romero movie. day of the dead.

Cool.

Yeah I believe he has a condo in Toronto.

Who would like to be at that cemetery at dusk on Halloween, night of the living dead 😏

correction not island of the dead,survival of the dead.

Yes he does. and God, this man's glasses are huge.

George gets his due for creating the story line & genre period. TWD is a reflection of the fear that our society is in over an apocalyptic demise. The political circus & it's talking heads continue 24/7 with the lies they want us to believe. Today's atmosphere just FEELS like something is coming. The idea of considering the pitfalls, dangers, hazards, what-have-you, to surviving a post apocalyptic viral plague, strikes me as almost psychological prep for what may confront us one day: like food, water, no electricity, etc. Never mind full-blown anarchy: survival of the fittest, or Mad Max scenarios...The show is excellent, that's why it's so popular. That's all...

Danny Boyle (the Director) has stated that it's not zombies it's infected, surely someone who made the film would know what they are

"Do humans know where they inherited their evil nature from ?"

My brother watches "The Walking Dead". I tried watching it and it is mostly a bunch of people talking to each other like some soap opera. It should be called "All my zombies".

We getting outta CoTD with this one

Rip George romero King of the zombie movies you could get someone else to do them but they wouldn't be as good or in fact great his long time fx guy tom savini equally just as good as a independent film maker he rocked his two best were I think dawn of the dead 1978 and day of the dead 1985 although this one was a little watered down compared to his original film script but nevertheless just as good the late Joseph pilato will be immortalised as captain Rhodes some other good things too about day of the dead the impressive fx work from tom savini and his fx crew it is a great shame that they don't make movies like these anymore to round off the 3 most scariest men in America are stephen king George romero and Tom savini these greats of film making are brilliant and true legends ❤😂🎉😅😊 Carl Lord.

There would be no "Walking Dead", if not for Romero's films- good or not so good. TWD creator Rob Kirkman has stated, very clearly, that "I want to make a Romero movie that doesn't end". Kirkman has obviously (and correctly) built his television juggernaut on the shoulders of a giant.

Good

Walking Dead was fun the first season but then it got pretty repetitive and stale. Can't believe there's a spinoff now.

Dat ponytail.

All hail Papa Zombie.

Walking Dead is better than any movie Romero has made in the last 20 years

Its fairly hard to admit shows like the sopranos, the walking dead, OZ, breaking bad, sons of anarchy, game of thrones, spartacus are all hit shows, with huge weekly (or the shows that are no longer in production) had huge weekly/annually viewing numbers/statistics, big DVD sales and lots of memorbalia, the same was said about the sopranos 10 years ago "it will be forgotten" LOL right, IM fairly sure a Comic book strip AS SUCCESSFUL as the walking dead (nearly 107 issues now and STILL GOING)

They are two completely different beasts. While I agree that Romero's Dead Films will not be forgotten (Actually I think Day is the most timeless one), I don't think The Walking Dead will be forgotten either. Romero's films are about social commentary, but The Walking Dead has much better storytelling.

calling the walking dead a soap opera with zombies is like calling breaking bad a soap opera with meth its a tv show there's a lot more they can do with the people besides just killing zombies and having sex like most zombie movies do

The similarities are there but TWD & THE DEAD movies are worlds apart.

"Walking Dead" is like the slick tribute band "Rain". Sure, the sound/color and visuals are better, but they're not "the Beatles". "Walking dead" will be forgotten while Romero's "Night" and "Dawn of the Dead" will still be the best.

10/10 cutoff guys