GAR Dead Films - Universe and Timeline

[capncnut]

Not OUR 1988 A.C., but the counterpart year of the Stretch. What absolute twaddle.

[EvilNed]

I agree with that. Its seems elementary to me. It is convienient to make it relevant to the current tiome when making a film, plus budgetary concerns preclude GAR from making them period pieces. Suspension of disbelief etc. No, Land is not in '88. Thats all hypothetical. Exactly. The movies have no real link, except the "Dead" in the title. All that matters is that they are set NOW. Not a certain amount of years after Day or Dawn, but NOW. N2NOther, you disregard stuff when it doesn't suit you and you acknowledge stuff when it fits your theory. No offense, but that's just what you're doing. The "He had no budget!" excuse is bull****, because Romero could easily have set Land in the 60's or 80's if he wanted too. He would have saved alot of money doing so.

[coma]

Not OUR 1988 A.C., but the counterpart year of the Stretch. Im saying , the differences are due to practical reasons, not any kind of Phantasmagoria. And isn't it AD (Anno Domani) not AC? Os that some new revisionism that I haven't noticed? You are truly on the Alter of Roy Thomas

[The Alive Man]

Im saying , the differences are due to practical reasons, not any kind of Phantasmagoria. And isn't it AD (Anno Domani) not AC? Os that some new revisionism that I haven't noticed? You are truly on the Alter of Roy Thomas Well, it's my theory. A.C. = After Christ. WTF? Who is Roy Thomas?

[coma]

Well, it's my theory. A.C. = After Christ. WTF? Who is Roy Thomas? I know its after Christ, I just have never seen that used anywhere. Is that some Italian thing? Roy Thomas is a comics writer who in the 60s and 70s created an extremely convoluted Alternate set of universes for D.C. to explain away any continutiy errors that led up into an overcomplicated, impossible to follow continuom.

[capncnut]

I know its after Christ, I just have never seen that used anywhere. Is that some Italian thing? Maybe it's an Italian football team, as in A.C. Milan.

[coma]

Maybe it's an Italian football team, as in A.C. Milan. Alternating Current?!?!?!

[rawrOTD]

so this thread is crazy and redonkulously far fetched i have a plan im going to make a movie linking the Bat Man series and the Godfather Series in order to piss off fans of both the Godfather and Batman but now i know a better idea for ruining movies I'll either remake all the dead movies taking out the anachronisms and things that shouldnt exists if it was a straight laced time line or maybe i'll make movies for in between each movie where they invent all of the things that shouldnt exist in the following film! then you guys could stop with all this hubbub! seriously though they dont go in a straight time line they do go in a line based on the level of invasion and level of zombie learnin' so in that manner i consider them a series they after all have the same themes and focus but figuring out some crazy formula to warp time and space to the Dead Films is just insanity they are a series but they each take place in the present each film takes the same zombie invasion and puts it in the present day but taken to the natural next level if they had been all in the 60s Romero would have quit long ago due to the limited scope of such a strict world if they all were chronological then where in hell did they invent all that crap? on a very off topic note (not that I'm ever on topic, or offering much to the discussion) Dead Next Door is the BEES KNEES has anyone made some sort of ULTIMATE TIMELINE OF THE ZOMBIE INVASION? like Night of the Living Dead and all of its sequels, rip offs, spin offs, tangents, illegitamite lovers, modern remakes, parodies and obvious inspirations? not based upon time, but based on the logical advancement of Zombies and their mission to eat everyone now that timeline would impress my socks off

[Shadowofthedead]

it happens on ther same universe and the same time line romero is the one who will dictate the years and the time line seeing how hes the creator of the universe he is the god of that universe.... ahhhhhhhhhhh all this intellect makes my somewhat intellegent brain hurt. wthe 3 weeks to three years between movies is fine for now until we recieve an official notice from the man... you make this poor follower of romoero want to turn in his gun and be comnsumed by the dead... SHUT UP ALL READY... if you watch the opening of LAND you will see the different eras of years in the back ground and besides it takes time for creatures to evolve as did the "zombies" supposedly so whos to say that the time line is just that the way the movies have come in order. dr logan does say that the decomposition has slowed down in DAY making 20- 40 years of a zombie living not all that impossible... JUST TAKE THE MOVIES HOW THEY ARE AND SHUT UP OR ILL COME BACK FROM THE DEAD AND EAT YOU ALL... i need another beer oh and take LAND's beginning for what it is... oh and the movie UNDEAD was on show time last night so look out for it later this month...

[N2NOther]

N2NOther, you disregard stuff when it doesn't suit you and you acknowledge stuff when it fits your theory. No offense, but that's just what you're doing. The "He had no budget!" excuse is bull****, because Romero could easily have set Land in the 60's or 80's if he wanted too. He would have saved alot of money doing so. He would have saved money by making clothes, hairstyles, cars and whathaveyou? No, he really wouldn't have...Not to mention that it's a logistics and continuity nightmare to make sure nothing is anachronistic. Friggin' Die Hard 2 had 10x the budget of every Dead film combined and they couldn't even make the Pay Phones say something other than Pacific Bell for a movie that takes place in DC...

[coma]

Friggin' Die Hard 2 had 10x the budget of every Dead film combined and they couldn't even make the Pay Phones say something other than Pacific Bell for a movie that takes place in DC... hahahaahha! Darn it, thats funny

[The Alive Man]

Alternating Current?!?!?!

[The Alive Man]

He would have saved money by making clothes, hairstyles, cars and whathaveyou? No, he really wouldn't have...Not to mention that it's a logistics and continuity nightmare to make sure nothing is anachronistic. Friggin' Die Hard 2 had 10x the budget of every Dead film combined and they couldn't even make the Pay Phones say something other than Pacific Bell for a movie that takes place in DC... DIE HARD 2 is horrid.

[dracenstein]

Voted same universe, different timelines. My reasoning is; I think the films follow the same outbreak with Dawn 3 weeks to 6 months after Night (Fran's developing pregnancy), Day about the same time as Dawn ends (the blown newspaper at the beginning, it hasn't decayed sufficiently for it to be significantly later. There had to be enough normality or reason to publish newspapers. Maybe disease [cholera, malaria, zombieitis, whatever] in their area greatly increased the walking dead numbers). And Land about three years after Night. The timeline is the differing technology. [I]Night[I], the car, tv, radio and tv studio - and Washington sequence, clearly 1960s. Dawn, the fashions of the tv studio people, the helocopter, the look, are 70s. Day, the guns, different vintage. Ok, not much to go on here. Land, cell phones, tech in general. Clearly different from Night. Cooper wasn't asking anyone if they had a cell phone in that farmhouse. Well, I hope that makes sense, and you know what I'm on about.

[Danny]

first off, argh!, zombie thread! second, who cares?, there good movies (BUT LAND WAS AMASTERPIECE FOR SOME! , ) there damn entertaining, what secret do you hope to unlock in all this, just enjoy it for what it is.