Filmmaker Brad Anderson (“Session 9,” “The Machinist”) has been set to direct “Twilight of the Dead,” the seventh and final installment of George A. Romero’s official ‘Living Dead’ franchise at Roundtable Entertainment.
Romero had reportedly written a treatment for the movie before he passed in 2017. Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas, and Paolo Zelati, who also worked on the treatment with Romero, have now finished the script.
First revealed back in 2021, the film unfolds on a tropical island and deals with the last humans on earth who are caught between factions of the undead. As usual, there’s sociopolitical commentary amongst the genre trappings.
Suzanne Romero, John Baldecchi, Sarah Donnelly, Paolo Zelati and Stephanie Caleb produce. Shooting is expected to start later this year in Puerto Rico. Anderson says in a statement:
“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. 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.”
The project is entirely separate from an untitled sequel to “Night Of The Living Dead” at MGM, which Nikyatu Jusu is helming. The Romero estate isn’t involved in that.
Source: THR
