‘Twilight of the DEAD’ has been a film that I had heard about for years. The final George A. Romero zombie film that would finish what he started with ‘Night of the Living DEAD’. But they were just rumors and hearsay from Romero fans with no facts to back up the legitimacy of the project. Turns out George was secretly developing the project behind the scenes before his battle with lung cancer ended his life in 2017.

Now Suzanne Romero, widow of the filmmaker, has plans to make the secret project a reality. Turns out she has been developing the script with three screenwriters over the past few years and is now ready to meet with different directors to make it a reality. How cool is that!

George A. Romero wrote the treatment for ‘Twilight of the DEAD’ with Paolo Zelati who ask Suzanne Romero if he could continue to develop the script.

“I gave him my full blessing as long as I could be there every step of the way for it to remain true to George’s vision,” says Suzanne Romero. “We had a solid treatment and the beginning of the script. I can 100 percent say that George would be incredibly happy to see this continue. He wanted this to be his final stamp on the zombie genre.”

“Everything started with my question to him: ‘Where do the zombies go at the end of Land of the Dead?'” says Zelati. To give you some background, ‘Twilight’ would be final film of the Zombie Saga that started with ‘Night of the Living DEAD’. Which went in the order of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, ‘Dawn of the Dead, ‘Day of the Dead, “Land of the Dead, and concluding with ‘Twilight’. ‘Diary of the Dead’ and ‘Survival of the Dead’ where NOT part of the Saga.

“It is no secret that Diary and Survival were not the way he envisioned the series ending, and George knew it very well,” notes Zelati. “Twilight of the Dead was his goodbye to the genre he created and wanted to go out with a powerful film.”

At the end of ‘Land of the Dead’, you had the ‘intelligent’ zombie leader “BIG DADDY” and his merry band of zombies that go off into the night with their fate left open. What George A. Romero wanted was to answer the question of what happens next?

“This is the film he wanted to make. And while someone else will carry the torch as the director, it is very much a George A. Romero film,” says Suzanne Romero.

Suzanne Romero runs the George A. Romero foundation, which seeks to preserve the filmmaker’s legacy and empower indie filmmakers.

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