In occasione della pubblicazione in 4k de La notte dei morti viventi, il grande George Romero ha rilasciato una lunga intervista a Hollywood Reporter analizzando l’attuale scenario cinematografico e lo stato di salute degli zombie-movies oggi. La stoccata più importante è arrivata nei confronti di Brad Pitt (in quanto produttore di World War Z) e The Walking Dead, entrambi secondo Romero colpevoli dell’uccisione del genere e dell’impossibilità, per lo stesso Romero, di trovare il budget necessario per girare una pellicola con significati sociopolitici.

Di seguito, l’estratto esatto delle sue parole:

I’ve sort of dropped out of it. The Dead are everywhere these days. I think really Brad Pitt killed it. The Walking Dead and Brad Pitt just sort of killed it all. The remake of Dawn of the Dead made money. I think pretty big money. Then Zombieland made money, and then all of a sudden, along comes Brad Pitt and he spends $400 million or whatever the hell to do World War Z. [World War Z author] Max Brooks is a friend of mine, and I thought the film was not at all representative what the book was and the zombies were, I don’t know, ants crawling over the wall in Israel. Army ants. You might as well make The Naked Jungle. As far as I’m concerned, I’m content to wait until sort of zombies die off. My films, I’ve tried to put a message into them. It’s not about the gore, it’s not about the horror element that are in them. It’s more about the message, for me. That’s what it is, and I’m using this platform to be able to show my feelings of what I think.