https://www.darkhorizons.com/return-of-the-living-dead-gets-a-reboot/ Okay, so I'll give the history lesson for the gen-z kiddies out there. George Romero's "Night Of The Living Dead" comes out. It's a smash hit. But! Its copyright papers get burned in a fire, and without them for proof, it becomes public domain. Romero can make sequels, but so can anyone else. So, a shady studio sets out to cash in with their fake non-canon sequel. Dan O'Bannon, writer of "Alien", now a director, gets his mitts on it, sees the sin being committed, and writes his script so it's a world where "Night" is a movie, so it's a meta-sequel/parody. Most casual VHS renters think "Return" is an authentic sequel, and get confused by the "Return" sequels blending in with the Romero-verse. Here's how to separate the universes in your head. Romero zombies eat you all up, and have no personality (generally; this rule gets bent a little in the sequels) . O'Bannon zombies eat your brains, say "brains!!" and maintain their personality. Romero zombies die when you shoot them in the head. O'Bannon zombies are indestructible. Romero zombies are a virus that gets anyone who dies, or gets you faster if a zombie bites you. O'Bannon zombies are created by indestructible toxic waste, and bites don't infect. Romero zombies are the basis for "The Walking Dead". O'Bannon zombies are so unstoppable, it's depressing, so no one but sequel makers use them. Except Marvel Zombies. Marvel Zombies uses O'Bannon zombies. Except in animation, where they're inexplicably Romero zombies. Parodies like Simpsons confuse things further by mixing universes. Think of the split timelines like MCU and Fox-Marvel. Or the multiple Sherlocks running around in the 2010's. So!! That's what's getting rebooted. The alterni-verse parody sequel that was an attempt to steal Romero's creation, but became its own thing thanks to O'Bannon being a nice guy.
Oh, yay. Just what we need. More zombie crap. Because that hasn't been completely overdone in the last ten years. Nope.
(Sarcasm aside, I'm a huge fan of Romero and O'Bannon. But TWD sparked a mad rush and we've been knocked over the head with mostly sub-par zombie shit for over a decade.) EDIT: Dicky beat me by milliseconds.
I hope they bring this guy back. This is from Friday the 13th Part 5, but he was in Return of the Living Dead.
They were fun, but they could kill the zombies with electricity IIRC. They could come up with a really cool salute to WF and have the zombies all die when Dayton's foot rot mixes with the stupid pills and spreads to all the brains in the world starving the zombies to death, by creating brainless arkansas assistant gym coaches out oof everyone. We could all write diaries and bad space fiction. It would be a thinky ending about which fate was actually worse.
