Milla Jovovich Will Star in the Final George A. Romero Zombie Film, Twilight of the Dead

George A. Romero was moving connected what would’ve been his last zombie movie ever erstwhile helium passed distant successful 2017 and now, after years of teases, it’s yet happening. Romero’s property has teamed with the accumulation institution Roundtable to bring the film, called Twilight of the Dead, to life. And portion the institution had already hired Brad Anderson (Session 9) to direct, they’ve present added Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element) and Betty Gabriel (Get Out) to star.

“We’re thrilled to stock Milla Jovovich’s instrumentality to the zombie genre successful this caller and archetypal mode with Twilight of the Dead,” Roundtable’s Sarah Donnelly told Deadline. “With Brad’s masterful, visionary absorption and Milla’s unsocial quality to bid the surface arsenic a bona fide enactment prima with affectional extent and resiliency, there’s nary uncertainty this movie volition beryllium a riveting, compelling standout successful the genre.”

Twilight volition beryllium the seventh movie successful the Romero saga, which started with 1968’s landmark Night of the Living Dead and continued successful 1978’s Dawn of the Dead, 1985’s Day of the Dead, 2005’s Land of the Dead, 2007’s Diary of the Dead, and 2009’s Survival of the Dead. This time, the movie volition instrumentality spot connected a tropical land and “delve into the acheronian quality of humanity from the position of the past humans connected world who are caught betwixt factions of the undead,” according to Deadline.

“I spot this movie successful the aforesaid mode arsenic palmy post-apocalyptic thrillers specified as I Am Legend, A Quiet Place, The Road, and The Last of Us—genre stories that are arsenic affectional arsenic they are intense,” Anderson said. “When I archetypal work Twilight of The Dead I teared up astatine the end. Which is weird for a movie of this type. But it has that benignant of pull, that combo of fearfulness and heartbreak that I love.”

No connection connected who Jovovich oregon Gabriel are playing, oregon erstwhile the movie volition travel out, but it’ll sprout successful 2025.

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