Director Unearthed For 'Day Of The Dead' Remake

Briefly: George Romero's Day of the Dead, the third of his original loose trilogy of zombie films and in some ways the strangest, hasn't been left in a grave to journey quietly into movie eternity. It has been ravaged by a sorta-sequel and a sorta-remake (from 2005 and 2008, respectively) and now will be exhumed once more for another remake.

Millennium Films, which has some hand in the first remake, now has Mark Tonderai (House At The End Of The Street) to do a modern version. He scripted with Lars Jacobson. Deadline reports that the new film takes place some time after a viral outbreak has destroyed most of humanity, "a group of scientists and survivors attempt to find a cure, and instead open Pandora's box."

Producer Christa Campbell (Texas Chainsaw 3D) said earlier this year "These are not going to be zombies climbing walls and doing back flips like in World War Z." But then World War Z went on to make hundreds of millions of dollars, and that has a way of changing minds. So who knows what we'll see here. No cast has been announced.