“I think we’re looking for a young, wonderful director, but with a great executive producer,” Suzanne explains. Romero’s final vision of his apocalyptic zombie mythology - a vision which birthed arguably the greatest horror trilogy of all time in Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead - would be an incredible challenge. How many directors would take on a George Romero like this?”Ĭertainly for any filmmaker, the thought of bringing George A. “It won’t leave my drawer until I feel confident that this will have the team that it needs. So where is that screenplay now? “In my drawer,” deadpans Suzanne, prompting us to ask if she can open said drawer and hold the script up to the camera for a few minutes. Lucas also contributed to the new script. George had apparently gotten as far as writing a treatment with screenwriter Paolo Zelati, and after his passing Zelati developed a screenplay under Suzanne’s supervision. So when we had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Suzanne this week, naturally we wanted to hear more about this exciting news. It’s essentially a 53-minute public service announcement about aging and elder abuse, commissioned by the Lutheran Society back in 1973 and filtered through the filmmaker’s nightmarish worldview, and it’s more than time it sees the light of day.īut then last month, Romero’s widow, Suzanne Romero, told The Hollywood Reporter that her husband had been working on a final film in his iconic Dead series, tentatively titled Twilight of the Dead, before his passing. First it was announced earlier in 2021 that a “lost” Romero film called The Amusement Park had been rediscovered and restored, and would premiere this month on horror streaming service Shudder. Romero passed away in 2017, but it seems like he’s in the news now more than in the last few years before his untimely death.

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