If you type in “Night of the Living Dead” on IMDB, the search brings back hundreds of incarnations of the zombie classic, with the original 1968 George A. Romero version at the top of the list.
Well, guess what?! There’s a new one coming out called “Night of the Living Dead: Origins.” It’s a 3D CGI re-imagining of the original being directed by newcomer Zebediah de Soto. Bet he’s feeling the pressure not to goof up the franchise right now!
The story, of course, follows a group of humans trying to stay alive during a zombie attack. Here are the latest six players to lend their voices to the production:
- Jesse Corti (“Heroes) will play a news reporter.
- Danielle Harris (“Halloween II”) plays a woman forced to come to grips with her family’s absence.
- Bill Moseley (“Carnivale”) will reprise the Wall Street type character he played in the 1990 live-action remake “Living Dead.”
- Joe Pilato (1978’s “Dawn of the Dead”) is voicing Harry Cooper, a blue-collar worker who lives for his injured daughter.
- Alona Tal (“Supernatural”) voices his wife, Helen, who blames her husband for everything that’s wrong in the world.
- Cornell Womack (“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”) is a no-nonsense New York cop.
While most zombie movies end up in enclosed spaces, De Soto says he plans to change that.
“I wanted to make this look like a living Monet; it’s expressionism,” De Soto said. “It’s going to be the first zombie movie played on a epic scale. This is the ‘Empire of the Sun’ of zombie films. … I lived through the L.A. riots and saw the city on fire; I remember seeing people running, people getting pulled out of cars. And with 9/11, these images have been ingrained on people of my generation. I just thought that is the way it would really be, a lot of chaos.”
Image: Amazon; Source: Hollywood Reporter