George Romero and his posthumous work: "Twilight of the dead"

George Romero passed away at the age of 77 in 2017 due to lung cancer. He directed more than 20 projects in his career and his debut feature, Night of the Living Dead, 1968 is considered one of the best zombie films in history, and a pioneer in its genre. Even today, directors who venture to make an undead film use Romero’s work as a total reference. Without going any further, Zack Snyder began his career in the film industry with a remake of the 68 film entitled Dawn of the Dead. When Romero died he had directed 5 films of the genre and Twilight of the Dead was going to be the sixth to close the saga.George Romero dealt with the original story Paolo Zelati and, now his widow Suzanne Romero has been preparing the script carefully with Zelati, Joe Knetter and Robert L. Lucas. The production is currently searching for a director for Twilight of the Dead. His wife spoke about the project recently: “I gave Zelati my full blessing, as long as he could be there every step of the way to stay true to George’s vision. The script treatment was very solid and I can say that George would be incredibly happy to see this continue. He wanted this to be his final stamp on the zombie genre. ”The plot of Twilight of the Dead would pick up the ending of The Land of the Dead, in which the final fate of the zombie leader was left open to public interpretation. The central theme of the film remains of course, the post-apocalyptic zombie world but with a certain halo of knowing that all is not lost. “The story takes place in a decimated world. Life has practically disappeared.But there may still be hope for humanity “, specified Romero’s widow. Last February we learned that this summer a restored copy of Romero’s lost film, The Amusement Park, would be released and Suzanne Romero will be in charge of ending the zombie saga that his late husband started more than 40 years ago. It seems that the figure of George Romero, like his creatures, rises to continue scaring us even after being deceased for almost 5 years.