‘The Walking Dead’s Greg Nicotero & Jimmy Miller To Make Film On The Making-Of George Romero’s Zombie Classic ‘Night Of The Living Dead’
22.07.2022 - 00:59
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EXCLUSIVE: As reams of San Diego Comic-Con attendees mill around dressed as flesh eaters or take part in zombie-themed events, filmmaker Greg Nicotero and his Monster Agency Productions has teamed with Jimmy Miller’s Mosaic to mount a movie about the making of George Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. From unlikely origins and a budget around $15,000, the film hatched the whole zombie genre and is regarded as arguably the greatest horror movie ever.
Nicotero is one of many creatives in film, TV and videogames who’ve benefited from Romero’s pioneering in the carnivorous corpse genre. He has directed 39 episodes of The Walking Dead, including the series finale he’s still finishing. Though he’s got a long list of genre credits, Nicotero actually learned his craft on Romero’s films. They are both from Pittsburgh, and so for that matter is Miller, and they all knew each other well. Nicotero said the idea for the movie came after he attended a memorial for the late Romero. There, he heard the filmmaker’s old friends swap stories about the making of his groundbreaking film. The chance that these Pittsburgh creatives who made commercials and industrial films together could turn out such a revered horror film on their first try still boggles Nicotero’s mind.
“They really had no experience,” he said. “One of the actors was the makeup artist. It was this bunch who’d shot a couple commercials, sitting around saying, hey we should make a movie. And someone in the group said, yes, ‘let’s make a horror movie. They always make money.’ I love that spirit of a group of people getting together who had no real idea what they were doing and fumbling their way through.
“They found this rickety old farmhouse in Pennsylvania,” he said.
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