Roundtable Entertainment has set a late 2023 start of production date in Puerto Rico on George A. Romero’s final zombie feature, “Twilight of the Dead”.
The late “Night of the Living Dead” director’s estate is teaming up with Roundtable on this ‘seventh and final installment’ of his seminal franchise.
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 per usual with Romero’s works, there’s sociopolitical commentary wrapped in the genre trappings. Negotiations are underway with a director, and talks had already begun with a cast before the actor’s strike. An interim agreement is now being sought.
Suzanne Romero, John Baldecchi, Sarah Donnelly, Paolo Zelati and Stephanie Caleb produce. The project is entirely separate from the untitled MGM sequel to “Night Of The Living Dead” which Nikyatu Jusu is helming – the Romero estate isn’t involved in that.
Source: Deadline
