Another Romero Zombie Movie Plus Casting Call

Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 4th, 2008

That’s right.  You’ve got it.  According to Variety, writer-director George Romero has begun production on his new film, another zombie movie under the working title Island of the Dead. The film will mark four decades of Romero’s flesh-eating walking undeads since the original Night of the Living Dead (1968).

Currently shooting in Ontario, Canada, the film stars Canadian Kenneth Welch (Rise of the Silver Surfer), Alan Van Sprang, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti, and Athena Karkanis in a “plot [that] involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure.”

Romero will executive produce the movie with several others. Voltage Pictures is already in for handling international distribution while Cinetic Media will focus on domestic sales. And if you’re currently lucky enough to be living in Canada, see The Expositor for details on a zombie casting call!