cop:Maybe we ca make it to the island, Flyboy:What island?, cop: Any island.

[Alzombiehunter]

Was this line from Dawn of the Dead early reference that George Romero wanted to make a future movie about an island of zombies( Survival of the dead)? I can't help thinking about that.

[JDFP]

Was this line from Dawn of the Dead early reference that George Romero wanted to make a future movie about an island of zombies( Survival of the dead)? I can't help thinking about that. I'm not for certain if Romero was going to use this for basing another film on or not. I think it was just one of those: "What if?" moments in the film that people have picked up on. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this, but isn't there a professional/semi-professional novel/novella/fiction story somewhere that picks up surrounding the "dock cops" and what happens to them after "Dawn" somewhere? If I'm not mistaken, I think there's quite a few stores regarding the dock cops floating around the fiction section here as well. "Got any cigarettes?" -- one of the best lines ever. j.p.

[bassman]

Damn...now i'm going to have to switch back to me "straight up" avatar. I think the island idea was just something romero had bouncing around in his head for a while. The original Day script takes place on an island, so maybe the inspiration for that came from the line in Dawn?

[krakenslayer]

To be honest I think it's just a common sense strategy that is pretty likely to come up again and again because it's just logical. An island is a habitable zone surrounded by a huge natural barrier (for anything that can't drive a boat), so it just makes sense. That's why the characters in Day escape to an island, why the society in Land was set up on a penninsula, why the characters in the Dawn remake made for an island and why the dock cops do too.

[MoonSylver]

Yeah, I never really thought there was any foreshadowing involved ( but who knows?), but just thought it was the kind of thing that was likely to come up.