George A. Romero’s “last zombie movie” Twilight of the dead has found its director.
Brad Anderson will direct the film, the “seventh and final part” of the film Living dead franchise, which is produced and financed by multi-platform production company Roundtable Entertainment. Roundtable recently announced a partnership with the Romero estate Twilight of the dead to the screen. Filming is expected to begin later this year.
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Romero and Paolo Zelati wrote the treatment, with the screenplay written by Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas and Zelati.
“George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead was perhaps the first real horror film I ever saw and its shock value, its great social relevance and even the way it was made were all hugely inspiring to me,” said Anderson. “This is also a zombie film 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 film with ‘heart’ and, dare I say, hope.”
Twilight of the dead is produced by Suzanne Romero, John Baldecchi, Stephanie Caleb, Zelati and Sarah Donnelly of Ardvella Entertainment, with executive producers Dominic Ianno, Alex Dundas, Jason Resnick, Chris Roe and Luis Riefkohl. Stephanie Holbrook casts the film.
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