Well, guess what?! There’s a new one coming out called “Night of the Living Dead: Origins.” It’s a 3D CGI re-imagining of the original being directed by newcomer Zebediah de Soto. Bet he’s feeling the pressure not to goof up the franchise right now!

The story, of course, follows a group of humans trying to stay alive during a zombie attack. Here are the latest six players to lend their voices to the production:

• Jesse Corti (“Heroes) will play a news reporter.
• Danielle Harris (“Halloween II”) plays a woman forced to come to grips with her family’s absence.
• Bill Moseley (“Carnivale”) will reprise the Wall Street type character he played in the 1990 live-action remake “Living Dead.”
• Joe Pilato (1978’s “Dawn of the Dead”) is voicing Harry Cooper, a blue-collar worker who lives for his injured daughter.
• Alona Tal (“Supernatural”) voices his wife, Helen, who blames her husband for everything that’s wrong in the world.
• Cornell Womack (“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”) is a no-nonsense New York cop.

While most zombie movies end up in enclosed spaces, De Soto says he plans to change that.

“I wanted to make this look like a living Monet; it’s expressionism,” De Soto said. “It’s going to be the first zombie movie played on a epic scale. This is the ‘Empire of the Sun’ of zombie films. … I lived through the L.A. riots and saw the city on fire; I remember seeing people running, people getting pulled out of cars. And with 9/11, these images have been ingrained on people of my generation. I just thought that is the way it would really be, a lot of chaos.”

Image: Amazon; Source: Hollywood Reporter

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If he takes on the project, I’m guessing it’ll mean Tyrannosaurus Rex might be delayed.

Producer Malek Akkad recently said that the “Halloween” sequel would begin pre-production in January with shooting to start sometime in March. Tyler Mane is expected to be backs as Michael Meyers.

Image: Rob Zombie, House of 1000 Corpses, 2003

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