Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Night of the Living Dead: Origins

12/2/09 - Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack are lending their voices to Night of the Living Dead: Origins, the 3D CGI reimagining of the George A. Romero zombie classic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The story follows a group of humans trying to stay alive during a zombie attack. Newcomer Zebediah de Soto is directing.  Corti is voicing a news reporter, and Harris plays a woman forced to come to grips with her family's absence.  Moseley is reprising the role he portrayed in a 1990 live-action remake, Living Dead: a Wall Street type with an expense-account attitude.  Pilato, who appeared in 1978's Dawn of the Dead, is voicing Harry Cooper, a blue-collar worker who lives for his injured daughter, and Tal voices his wife, Helen, who blames her husband for all the ills of the world. Womack is cast as a no-nonsense New York cop.  De Soto said some of the casting is "a nod to Romero fans. Horror is a genre, and zombie movies are a subgenre that people have been following for years and years."  De Soto noted that nearly all zombie movies end up in an enclosed environment, be it a house or a mall, and he aims to change that. He's counting on the CGI technology that he and his New Golden Digital effects company are developing.

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