“The Walking Dead” executive producer, special make-up effects supervisor, and director Greg Nicotero demonstrated his love for George A. Romero’s seminal classic Night of the Living Dead with a detailed tribute in the “Creepshow” season three finale.
Deadline reports that Nicotero is taking his love of Romero and the zombie film further by teaming up with Jimmy Miller to make a making-of feature.
Nicotero told the outlet, “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 fucking idea of what they were doing, getting together to make Night of the Living Dead.”
In other words, Nicotero wants to spotlight Romero and his personality as much as the unique circumstances of creating one of the most formative horror movies on a meager budget and means. Nicotero came up with the feature idea and will direct it. Nicotero and Miller have tied up the necessary rights. They are working with Romero’s widow, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, with Nicotero and Miller producing along with Brian Witten for Monster Agency and M. Riley for Mosaic. They’re going out to writers immediately.
Much as he did in “Creepshow,” the horror filmmaker plans to recreate scenes from the film, this time in black and white and in color.
That this project comes from an idea by Nicotero makes perfect sense; the filmmaker credits Romero for his career, having met the horror master at the age of 15 and worked on many of his horror movies.
In the 1968 film is, “A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role. Stark, haunting, and more relevant than ever, Night of the Living Dead is back.”
Stay tuned for more details as they arrive.
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