George A. Romero has signed on to write and direct "George Romero's Diary of the Dead" following in the tradition of his 1968 cult classic "Night of the Living Dead" reports the trades.
With a story mixing elements of "The Blair Witch Project" and the long-running "Dead" series, the film will follow a group of college students shooting a horror movie in the woods who stumble upon a real zombie uprising.
When the onslaught begins, they seize the moment as any good film students would, capturing the undead in a "cinema verite" style that causes more than the usual production headaches.
Shooting begins October 11th in Toronto. Romero is also set to write and direct the thriller "Solitary Isle" for Hyde Park Entertainment.
