Genre vet Danielle Harris has scored the starring role in Zebediah de Soto’s Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D, a prequel of sorts to George A. Romero’s classic zombie film that started it all. “All you’re good luck wishes worked! Guess who’s gonna be Barbara?!,” Harris tells fans on Twitter
adding, “Michael, vamps, and now zombies!!” On the story front, De Soto, who wrote the script with David R. Schwartz, wants to update the tale partially by bringing out the characters’ backstories and make what he called “an American-style anime.” Harris is also starring in Stake Land and can be seen in both of Rob Zombie’s Halloween films.
The re-imagining is being directed by newcomer Zebediah de Soto and produced by Simon West and Simon West Productions president Jib Polhemus.
On the story front, De Soto, who wrote the script with David R. Schwartz, wants to update the tale partially by bringing out the characters’ backstories and make what he called “an American-style anime.”
The latter will be done by using new technology the filmmaker is inventing. De Soto, along with partner Gus Malliarodaki founded New Golden Digital, a digital effects company which develops cutting-edge hardware and software.
