Filmmaker Greg Nicotero and his Monster Agency Productions are teaming with Jimmy Miller’s Mosaic to mount a movie about the making of George Romero’s iconic 1968 film classic “Night of the Living Dead”.
Nicotero has directed 39 episodes of “the Walking Dead,” including the series finale which he’s still finishing. He, Miller and producers Brian Witten and M. Riley will work with Romero’s widow, Suzanne DesRocher-Romero on the project. Writers are currently being sought.
The original film boasted only a small budget of around $115,000, but quickly hatched the whole zombie genre and is still regarded as one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
Nicotero says: “What I want to do is an Ed Wood-style movie that shows the heart and character of this guy, with the backdrop this Magnificent Seven version of a bunch who had no f–king idea of what they were doing, getting together to make Night of the Living Dead.”
He will shoot the re-created scenes from the original film in black and white but the rest in color. While the film grossed $30 million and has made around $200 million over the years, hugely profitable, a mistake regarding the title’s copyright filing left a wide opening for opportunists to ravage his film and lost Romero millions.
Source: Deadline
