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Return Of The Living Dead was supposed to be based on John Russo's early 70s novel of the same title which was a direct sequel to NOTLD (Dawn Of The Dead didn't exist yet). Tobe Hooper was supposed to direct, but the project ran into delays, and Dan O'bannon was brought in and he totally rewote the script so it had nothing to do with Russo's novel. The film is more like an unrelated spin off.
Incidently, Russo also worte a novelization of O'Bannon's film (I've got both novels) which is different from both his old novel and the film's screenplay.
Children Of The Living Dead was produced by Russo and features elements from Russo original ROTLD novel. Except that it's a huge steaming pile of shit! :mad:
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