{"id":27326,"date":"2023-11-03T11:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=27326"},"modified":"2023-11-08T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:35:02","slug":"new-george-romero-film-twilight-of-the-dead-coming-our-way-article-by-phillip-mccoy-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/new-george-romero-film-twilight-of-the-dead-coming-our-way-article-by-phillip-mccoy-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Hunter Students Flock to a New George Romero Film?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8EDG8zwsb0?si=-DV4yInHLxkOfJAZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27694\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twilightofdead-logo-good.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27694\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27694\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twilightofdead-logo-good-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twilightofdead-logo-good-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twilightofdead-logo-good-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twilightofdead-logo-good-560x315.jpg 560w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twilightofdead-logo-good-260x146.jpg 260w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twilightofdead-logo-good-160x90.jpg 160w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twilightofdead-logo-good.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Roundtable Entertainment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD shook the world of cinema in 1968 because of the novel ways Romero, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independent_film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an independent filmmaker,<\/a> introduced his zombies to the big screen. He imbued his horror movies with social-cultural critique that exerted significant influence in the horror genre as a whole. Romero died in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>His films enjoy an overwhelmingly positive international critique as well as considerable public acceptance, sitting at a 96 percent rating on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> \u00a0even though five sequels of the original got subsequently lower ratings. The most recent, for example, SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD (2009) earned only 30 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Roundtable Entertainment, which has formed a partnership with the Romero estate, has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brad_Anderson_(director)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brad Anderson<\/a> is to direct George A. Romero\u2019s final film, TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD. \u00a0Can Director Brad Anderson rejuvenate the enthusiasm that the franchise once commanded?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD may have been the first real horror movie I ever saw and its shock value, its keen social relevance, and even the means by which it was made were all hugely inspirational to me,\u201d Anderson is quoted as saying in a press release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rosietibbs-co-uk.medium.com\/night-of-the-living-dead-as-social-political-horror-83c531b93d6e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD As Social-Political Horror.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27646\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27646\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27646\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph-1024x713.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph-768x535.jpg 768w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph-560x390.jpg 560w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph-260x181.jpg 260w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph-160x111.jpg 160w, http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/coco1-graph.jpg 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;They&#8217;re coming to take you away, Barbra.&#8221; Graphic of iconic early scene in George Romero&#8217;s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. \u00a9 Copyright Coco Lin 2023<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anderson worked on the script and a screenplay with producer Paolo Zelati. He expects to include a \u201cpointed social commentary\u201d like the original film, which addressed race prejudice distrust. Anderson, according to the press information, plans to bring themes of change and humanity back to the zombie genre. Film producers chose him because of his success as an independent filmmaker, yet, there is still this big question: Can he capture the magic of George A. Romero? A corollary: What kind of magic will he conjure?<\/p>\n<p>Areanna Persaud, 19, a Hunter psychology major, told this writer she knew nothing about NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD but correctly guessed it was about zombies, and she said she was vaguely familiar with the name Brad Anderson. Persaud, said she has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/lets-watch-scary-movies\/id1589044584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LET&#8217;S WATCH SCARY MOVIES<\/a>\u00a0 <u>depicting the iconic \u201cGhost Face Killer\u201d from <em>Scream (1996),<\/em><\/u>\u00a0 and she admitted to \u201cliving under a rock\u201d when it came to classic horror films, though she named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?channel=fenc&amp;client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;q=walking+dead+2010+movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE WALKING DEAD (2010),<\/a> THE LAST OF US (2023), WORLD WAR Z<em> (<\/em>2013), and even <em>PARANORMA <\/em>(2012), which undeniably follow in Romero\u2019s footsteps.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, however, she said, \u201cI don&#8217;t really like zombie movies,\u201d and said that she would watch the new film \u201cbecause [the original] is a classic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psychology major Zion Bellot, 20, said she enjoyed YouTube channels with film analysis like \u201cFoundflix\u201d whose videos \u201cGeorge Romero&#8217;s Zombies Explained\u201d and \u201cWTF Happened To The Return Of The Living Dead?\u201d grossed 2.28 million and 173,000 views respectively. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD evoked notions of 1960s racism, according to Bellot, and while she held the same connotations for the word \u201czombie,\u201d she appreciated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.cmu.edu\/about\/news\/2017-10\/legacy-dead-history-zombie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haitian origin of the zombie myth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"3\" width=\"50%\" \/>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"3\" width=\"50%\" \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Official Line About the Making of TWILIGHT OF THE DEAD<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>Roundtable Entertainment has partnered with the estate of horror legend George A. Romero to bring his final movie and last testament to the screen and create a new apocalyptic zombie franchise, Twilight of the Dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Romero, considered one of the godfathers of the horror genre, created Night Of The Living Dead, the 1968 zombie classic that launched the genre that has nourished Hollywood ever since in countless zombie movies and series like The Walking Dead. George A. Romero and Paolo Zelati penned the treatment, with the script written by Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas, and Paolo Zelati. Suzanne Romero, John Baldecchi, Sarah Donnelly, Paolo Zelati and Ardvella Entertainment\u2019s Stephanie Caleb are producing, with Executive Producers Dominic Ianno, Alex Dundas, Jason Resnick, Chris Roe, and Luis Riefkohl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While details are currently under wraps, Twilight Of The Dead is the seventh and final installment of the seminal \u201cLiving Dead\u201d film franchise. To end his epic saga, George chose to set this last story on a tropical island and the movie will film in Puerto Rico later this year, with Roundtable producing and financing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Phillip McCoy-Campbell can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:PHILLIP.MCCOYCAMPBELL44@myhunter.cuny.edu\">PHILLIP.MCCOYCAMPBELL44@myhunter.cuny.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Anderson is to direct George A. 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