George A. Romero will bring us his final Zombie movie... from beyond the grave!
The legendary filmmaker passed away in 2017 after a battle with lung cancer, but he had been working on a script for what was to be the conclusion of a saga that began all the way back in 1968 with low-budget classic, Night of the Living Dead. Now, THR reports that Twilight of the Dead is officially in the works.
George's widow Suzanne Romero has been developing the script with screenwriters Joe Knetter, Robert L. Lucas and Paolo Zelati - who worked on the original treatment with Romero prior to his death - for the past few years, and is now preparing to meet with directors.
"I gave [Zelati] my full blessing as long as I could be there every step of the way for it to remain true to George’s vision," says Suzanne Romero. "We had a solid treatment and the beginning of the script. I can 100 percent say that George would be incredibly happy to see this continue. He wanted this to be his final stamp on the zombie genre."
Though Romero helmed 2007's Diary of the Dead and 2009's Survival of the Dead, he never considered them to be part of the same overarching story that began with Night, so Twilight is set to pick up after the events of 2005's Land of the Dead.
"It is no secret that Diary and Survival were not the way he envisioned the series ending and George knew it very well," says Zelati. "Twilight of the Dead was his goodbye to the genre he created and wanted to go out with a powerful film."
We don't have any specific plot details (fans will be hoping to see the return of Land's intelligent zombie, Big Daddy), but there is an intriguing logline: "The story is set in a decimated world. Life has all but disappeared. But there still may be hope for humanity."
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