George A. Romero’s son to direct prequel to Night Of The Living Dead.
After the passing of the Godfather of the Zombie movie, George A. Romero earlier this year, news has now broken that the family name will continue working in the genre with the director’s son Cameron Romero announcing that he will soon be helming a prequel to his father’s revered 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead.
The project has been in gestation for sometime now and back in 2014 Romero Jr raised $30 thousand via a crowdfunding site towards the project which was originally titled “Origins” but now carries the very apt moniker, Rise of the Living Dead.
The director explained to Screen Rant that he sees this new project as, “A love letter to my dad.”
The plot is said to be as follows:
“Rise of the Living Dead takes place during the social turmoil of the early 1960s, not too long before the zombie uprising that occurred in Night [of the Living Dead].The story centers on Dr. Ryan Cartwright, a military-funded scientist tasked with finding a way to sustain human life in the event of a nuclear holocaust. This mission came to be following the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late 1962, which saw the United States and Russia come dangerously close to mutual annihilation. Cartwright’s journey somehow leads to the creation of the Romero universe’s first zombie, and the apocalypse that followed.”
No news yet on when production will begin but this sounds like a very promising and wholly justified entry into Romero’s legendary Zombie saga.