Romero's "Twilight Of The Dead" Resurrects for Final Shoot in 2023

George A. Romero’s last installment in the legendary Living Dead series, "Twilight Of The Dead," has received a new surge of life. The financiers and producer Roundtable Entertainment intend to start filming the final zombie movie in late 2023 on location in Puerto Rico. The Romero estate and Roundtable are partnering to breathe life into the seventh and concluding chapter of the beloved Living Dead franchise.

Romero, a horror film icon, authored a treatment for "Twilight Of The Dead" before his death in 2017, marking it as the end of his ambitious saga. The movie project was first announced in 2021, and since then, the production has simmered in the background. But now, with a finished script by Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas, and Paolo Zelati - all of whom also worked on the treatment with Romero - the film is back in active preparation.

"Twilight Of The Dead" is set on a tropical island and aims to explore humanity's dark side from the viewpoint of the last surviving humans on earth, trapped in between undead factions. The production team draws a parallel to Romero's unique body of work, encapsulating sociopolitical commentary within genre boundaries. Work from the same palette includes Romero’s 2005 film "Land Of The Dead" that introduced Big Daddy, a sentient zombie leader, and grossed $20M domestically and close to $50M globally.

The "Twilight Of The Dead" production team, including Suzanne Romero, the late filmmaker's widow and estate manager, is currently negotiating with a potential director. Discourses with the cast were underway before the SAG-AFTRA strike and interim arrangements are being sought. Additional films are a possibility if "Twilight Of The Dead" performs well. The team of producers includes Suzanne Romero, John Baldecchi, Sarah Donnelly, Paolo Zelati, and Ardvella Entertainment’s Stephanie Caleb, with executive producers Dominic Ianno, Alex Dundas, Jason Resnick, Chris Roe, and Luis Riefkohl.

Suzanne Romero expressed her delight at working with Roundtable to bring Romero's evolving universe to life. Likewise, Roundtable’s Head of Scripted, John Baldecchi, mirrored her sentiment, stating the massive excitement within the creative community to contribute to the legacy of one of the greatest horror franchises.

How do you like your resurrection - ice-cold or sizzled over zombie coals? 'Cause, darling, the daddy of zombie flicks, George A. Romero's "Twilight Of The Dead," is back from the grave! In the parlance of the horror-loving crowd, it's a “reanimated” project, and honestly, could the term fit any better?

Isn’t it an eerie beauty of the movie universe where the brainfeasting corpses of Romero's creation keep rising, enthralling us with the haunting dark satire that splashes the canvas of undead gore? And possibly no one could appreciate this delicious concoction of brains, wit, and critique more than the financiers at Roundtable who, wisely, are leaving the door wide open for more Living Dead offsprings. It’s all about survival, after all.

But hold onto your human hearts because here's the plot twist: trapped in a tropical paradise amid undead factions, the human survivors cast their final gaze on the monster in the mirror. An existential horror cocktail blended and served in Romero's style - sociopolitical introspection with a side of savage zombie madness.

Roundtable’s John Baldecchi did right by cheering on the "powerful and timely message about how humanity is the cause of its own destruction, over and over and over again." After all, in Romero's immortal words, “I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.” Perhaps the next generation undead on this tropical island will show us our reflection awash in the blood-red sunset of Twilight, and we’d know for whom the bell tolls.

As we wait in anticipation for Romero's final apocalyptic vision, let's remember the legacy of the man who turned a provincial terror tale into a pervasive pop-culture phenomenon. It's simultaneously scary, spectacular, and societe-tastic. So, tighten your seat belts and buckle up for an unforgettable ride into the sunset of the Living Dead series, and remember - no one does zombies quite like Romero.