George A. Romero
The final part of his zombie series is to appear posthumously
A man with big glasses and an even bigger vision: George A. Romero
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A final greeting from the afterlife: “Twilight of the Dead”, the conclusion of George A. Romero’s zombie series, should soon become a reality.
A degree that the cult director would certainly have liked. At the finale of the decades-long zombie film series, George A. Romero (1940-2017) will report himself again from the afterlife. The fifth part called “Twilight of the Dead”, on which Romero had worked before his death in 2017, is now supposed to appear posthumously, reports the US industry website “The Hollywood Reporter” exclusively. According to this, the director’s widow, Suzanne Romero, made this her business.
Together with three scriptwriters, she finished her husband’s unfinished script. She gave them her “complete approval, as long as I could be involved in every step to ensure that they stay true to George’s vision,” said Suzanne Romero. In the meantime, the script has been completed and they are now looking for a director to bring it to the screen.
With this film he wanted to resign
With his film “Night of the Living Dead” Romero founded the zombie genre as we know it today in 1968. “Dawn of the Dead” (1978), “Day of the Dead” (1985) and “Land of the Dead” (2005) followed. Romero made two other zombie films, “Diary of the Dead” (2007) and “Survival of the Dead” (2009), but was not satisfied with the way they were published and therefore deliberately did not count them in his original series. This should now find its worthy finale with “Twilight of the Dead”.
“This is the film he actually wanted to make. And while someone else will bear the torch as a director, it is and will remain a film by George A. Romero,” says Suzanne Romero. Her husband died in 2017 at the age of 77 from complications from lung cancer.