George A. Romeroleft behind nearly 50 script that could someday be adapted for the great filmdom , the belated filmmaker ’s wife , Suzanne Desrocher - Romero , toldComicBook.com .
Romero is better get it on for authorship and directingNight of the Living Dead(1968 ) , which spawn a slew of zombi - fill up spin - offs . He had been working on one of those scripts , titledRoad of the Dead , at the sentence of his death last summer at the years of 77 . consort toIndieWire , the filmmaker died just Clarence Day before slope the musical theme to film moneyman at Frontières . Longtime collaborator Matt Birman came up with the idea for the film , which takes spot on an island where captive zombies are squeeze to race railway car for the entertainment of human spectators .
That project is still being developed , but there have been bumps along the way , articulate Desrocher - Romero . “ That ’s in the kit and caboodle I opine . I retrieve it ’s sputtered a little bit , but we ’ll see what befall , " she told ComicBook.com .
In accession toRoad of the Dead , Romero had fill out the scripts for four more films . Two were based on novel , and two were original stories . However , “ only one , a comedy , is a zombie project , ” IndieWire notes .
Desrocher - Romero also teased a 1973 movie that only a few choice mass have see . She called it a scary movie — but “ not a repulsion movie”—that tinge on themes of ageism and have a cameo from Romero . She say its screening will be one of the first project guarantee by the George A. Romero Foundation shelaunchedthis calendar month .
Her married man had also been working on a novel calledThe Living Dead , and Desrocher - Romero has ask another writer to help complete that project . There ’s a muckle of bare material in her husband ’s oeuvre , and if all goes according to program , horror lover will finally get to see these visions brought to life .
" George was a fertile writer . He loved to compose , and we have 40 , 50 scripts that he ’s written , and a mickle of it is very good , ” Desrocher - Romero state . “ He had a lot to say , and he still does , because I ’m gon na make trusted that he does . It ’s my military mission . "
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