Syfy’s planned TV series adaptation of George A. Romero’s third zombie film classic, 1985’s “Day of the Dead,” will apparently be set in the same universe as the original film – as opposed to being a straight remake.
Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas serve as showrunners on the series which will follow six strangers trying to survive the first twenty-four hours of a zombie outbreak.
Steven Kostanski, who directs four of the ten-episode run, recently appeared on Bloody Disgusting’s Boo Crew Podcast and confirmed he already wrapped his work on the project a few weeks ago:
“I actually wrapped up working on that back in December; I ended up shooting the first four episodes of the show. So it’s a ten-episode series; it does have ties to the original movie. I can’t go into too many specifics, unfortunately. I’m not really allowed to say much of anything.
It was a very scrappy, low budget affair, and I had a ton of fun making it… We got Masters FX to once again provide creature effects for it. So I can say that, at the very least, the zombies are super awesome. It’s a very weird, interesting show, that I don’t think is what people are going to be expecting.
I had a ton of fun making it and really utilized all my low-budget sensibilities to pull it off. It was another case of like, a very ambitious premise, with the bare minimum of resources. And I think that yielded a lot of great creativity from the team.”
‘Day’, much like its predecessors “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dawn of the Dead,” is widely considered to be one of the very best zombie movies ever made. The original has already been remade as films twice and scored a prequel.
