The zombie legacy of George A. Romero lives on with a new film.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Romero’s last project Twilight of the Dead will be helmed by Brad Anderson, the filmmaker best known for Session 9 and The Machinist.
Twilight of the Dead is Romero’s last project, having reportedly written a treatment for the movie before he passed in 2017. Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas, and Paolo Zelati, under Roundtable Entertainment, have finished the script with permission from the George A. Romero estate.
“George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead may have been the first real horror movie I ever saw, and its shock value, its keen social relevance, and even the means by which it was made were all hugely inspirational to me,” said Anderson. “This, too, is a zombie movie in which limbs fly and heads roll, but one that is also about social transformation, one that asks the question: What is it to be human? It is also a horror movie with “heart” and, dare I say, hope.”
Twilight of the Dead is set on a tropical island and will reportedly “delve into the dark nature of humanity from the perspective of the last humans on earth who are caught between factions of the undead.”
Shooting on Twilight of the Dead will begin shooting later this year in Puerto Rico.
