{"id":101155,"date":"2022-11-01T23:43:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/the-sundance-winning-director-teams-up-with-a-screenwriter-from-the-walking-dead-to-revisit-the-zombie-classic\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T23:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:13:46","slug":"the-sundance-winning-director-teams-up-with-a-screenwriter-from-the-walking-dead-to-revisit-the-zombie-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/the-sundance-winning-director-teams-up-with-a-screenwriter-from-the-walking-dead-to-revisit-the-zombie-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sundance-winning director teams up with a screenwriter from &#8216;The Walking Dead&#8217; to revisit the zombie classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>George Romero&#8217;s zombie movie classic &#8216;Night of the Living Dead&#8217; (1968) is getting a sequel, with Village Roadshow Pictures partnering with the late Romero&#8217;s production company on a new film that <strong>will be directed by the filmmaker behind the 2022 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner<\/strong>&#8216;Nanny&#8217;, Nikyatu Jusu and that it will be an expansion of the 1968 original conceived as a possible franchise.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<h2>Social cinema and horror noire<\/h2>\n<p>Although plot details are being kept under wraps,<strong> LaToya Morgan<\/strong> of &#8216;The Walking Dead&#8217; is writing the script.  Village Roadshow is putting the film together as a package that will be presented to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market. <strong>They will partner with Chris Romero and George A. Romero&#8217;s Sanibel Films, as well as Origin Story, Vertigo and Will Smith&#8217;s Westbrook Studios. <\/strong>CAA Media Finance and Village Roadshow Pictures to co-manage US rights. FilmNation is handling international sales and will present the project to buyers at AFM.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>According to Jusu<\/strong> it&#8217;s a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The original version of &#8216;Night of the Living Dead&#8217; continues to resonate to this day. Every era has the zombie it needs, and right now zombies reflect the way humans treat each other and show us Who really is the monster?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"article-asset-image article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-wrapper-image\" style=\"padding-top:58.777429467085%;\">\n                 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sf-lazy centro_sinmarco\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/0949b5\/notld-nikyatu-jusu\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/0949b5\/notld-nikyatu-jusu\/650_1200.jpeg 681w,https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/0949b5\/notld-nikyatu-jusu\/1024_2000.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/0949b5\/notld-nikyatu-jusu\/1366_2000.jpeg 1366w,\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/0949b5\/notld-nikyatu-jusu\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Notld Nikyatu Jusu\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n  <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Notld Nikyatu Jusu\" class=\"centro_sinmarco\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/0949b5\/notld-nikyatu-jusu\/450_1000.jpeg?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For its part,<strong> Morgan commented<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c&#8217;Night of the Living Dead&#8217; is one of the great pillars of the horror genre.  I am beyond excited to play in that sandbox that George Romero built and ecstatic to raise the stakes and push the boundaries with this exciting new story.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"article-asset article-asset-normal article-asset-center\">\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"24 essential zombie movies and series to watch in streaming\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/9afc04\/zombiesarmy\/375_142.jpg?w=788&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The director&#8217;s ex-wife<\/strong>Christine Romero partner in the 80s and 90s of her work commented:<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am so excited for this visionary team of storytellers who have come together to expand on the premise of the original film.  Revisiting the world that George and his collaborators created will be a delight for fans.  George would have been so happy to see this happen!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Romero&#8217;s zombie movie classic &#8216;Night of the Living Dead&#8217; (1968) is getting a sequel, with Village Roadshow Pictures partnering with the late Romero&#8217;s production company on a new film that will be directed by the filmmaker behind the 2022 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner&#8216;Nanny&#8217;, Nikyatu Jusu and that it will be an expansion of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":101156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10746],"tags":[11182,11512,10934,28972,12248,28971,13761,11513,13766],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.blogs.es\/5ba823\/night-of-the-living-dead-movie\/840_560.jpeg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}