It’s been known for a while that ‘Twilight Of The Dead’ is another, sixth sequel to the zombie super classic ‘The Night of the Living Dead’ aka ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ waiting for us – and that, although it original is already 55 years old and the director, zombie ancestor George A. Romero, died of lung cancer in 2017 at the age of 77. Now it is known who will follow in Romero’s footsteps.
Like the American trade magazine reported, becomes the filmmaker Brad Anderson to direct “Twilight Of The Dead”. Anderson is perhaps most famous for his sleep-deprived thriller “the engineer“, for which thoroughbred actor Christian Bale was emaciated almost to the point of skeleton, he has also staged some real horror films such as “Session 9”, “The Shadow Reign” or “Stonehearst Asylum”. Lately he has mainly been active as a series director.
This leaves Anderson with the task of continuing the “Of The Dead” series that Romero started in 1968 with “Night Of The Living Dead”, which is now considered by many to be the best zombie movie of all time – including the German one. for example Public:
Romero then expanded the series with stand-alone sequels “Zombie” aka “Dawn Of The Dead” (1978) and “Zombie 2” aka “Day Of The Dead” (1985). Romero also filmed Land Of The Dead (2005), Diary Of The Dead (2007) and Survival Of The Dead in the 2000s. (2009). Romero actually wanted to film ‘Twilight Of The Dead’ after that and had already written a so-called treatment for it, namely a rough roadmap for the story and the characters.
This is the story of “Twilight Of The Dead”
Twilight Of The Dead would be a separate sequel to Land Of The DeadAt least it has been said in the past that there will be a reunion with the intelligent leader zombie from “LotD”. By the way, it is already known from the plot of “Twilight Of The Dead” that the late sequel will be set on a tropical island where the last humans will have to deal with various undead factions.
In a statement that dem available, Anderson said that “Night of the Living Dead” was probably the first horror movie he had ever seen and also a great inspiration for his work. ‘Twilight Of The Dead’ will be a zombie movie with limbs flying and heads rolling, but ‘it’s also about social unrest and what it means to be human.’ It’s a horror movie with heart and hope.
Filming for “Twilight Of The Dead” is expected to begin in late 2023, with filming possibly starting in 2024 – if everything goes according to plan (keyword: Hollywood strikes).