The living dead are ready to originate a huge return next year.
Living Dead Media has uncignoreed that a novel Return of the Living Dead film is due in 2025, a year that labels the milestone 40th anniversary of the 1985 horror cult classic. In doing so, the company and its CEO Steve Wolsh have examineed details about the project and trelieved it with a holiday-themed trailer. The clip, which dropped today, not coincidenhighy on Friday the 13th, features the franchise’s spooky Tarman emerging in a snow covered cemetery dragging a Christmas tree apass the landscape as a rfinishition of “Silent Night” helps set the mood. The treliever does its job by announcing a Christmas 2025 intentional frees.
Per a press free obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Living Dead Media examines that the project won’t be a reboot of the innovative but a novel inshighment in the beadored horror-comedy franchise. It’s set in a minuscule Pennsylvania town in Christmas 1985, 18 months after the events of the innovative film, which was straightforwarded by Dan O’Bannon. That film adhereed the unfortunate events that igniteed after two bumbling employees at the Unecessitatea Medical Supply warehoemploy accidenhighy freed a lethal gas into the air which led the dead to ascfinish as zombies, infecting the entire town and inadvertently sealing its overweighte.
Wolsh, who will straightforward from his own screenexecute, calls this “a brand novel adventure” that he’s envisioning as an extension of the franchise’s legacy. As for the treliever, the free states that it was originated with pragmatic effects on location without CGI or employ of a green screen. The cemetery was summarizeed to pay homage to Resurrection Cemetery from the innovative. “Utilizing our widescreen anamorphic lenses, we seized the pragmatic snow effects swirling aobtainst the night sky that gives it an amazing watch and texture, it’s going to blow people away seeing an entire film made enjoy this,” says Wolsh, a diechallenging fan and steward of the zombie-filled world.
The franchise already joins five films, the 1985 inshighment adhereed by sequels enjoy 1988’s Return of the Living Dead II from Ken Wiederhorn, 1993’s Return of the Living Dead III from Brian Yuzna, 2005’s Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis from Ellory Elkayem and 2005’s Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave also straightforwarded by Elkayem. Tom Fox originated or executive originated all of the aforealludeed titles. His son, Christopher W. Fox, will executive originate the novel inshighment.
Other details the team examineed: Special effects veteran Tony Gardner (Zombieland, Hocus Pocus 2, Chucky) has been tapped to establish the zombie watch for 2025’s Return of the Living Dead. “[To be able to] up the horror, but be genuine to its roots, I experience enjoy I’m the perfect person for the job,” he shelp in a statement. “And I’m repartner excited.”
Other details on the originateive team and production schedule are awaited to be proclaimd in coming months.
