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Living Dead crowdfunding campaign

LOS ANGELES — G Cameron Romero, the son of legendary horror film-maker George A Romero, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for the genesis story of his father’s horror movie, Night Of The Living Dead.

LOS ANGELES — G Cameron Romero, the son of legendary horror film-maker George A Romero, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for the genesis story of his father’s horror movie, Night Of The Living Dead.

Cameron, who will direct, launched the 30-day campaign through Indiegogo with a goal of US$150,000 (S$191,000) for pre-production costs at http://www.helptelltheorigin.com.

“I feel carrying on my dad’s legacy is something that I not only want to do, but it’s something I have to do because I, like all my dad’s fans, was raised on his creation,” he said.

Origins is produced under the Romero Pictures banner. Producers include the elder Romero and Darrin Reed.

“The origin story deserves to be told by someone who passionately loves and has a unique insight into the original movie and nobody has that more than George’s own son,” Reed said.

Night Of The Living Dead was released in 1968 and starred Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea and Karl Hardman. The film, which follows seven people trapped in a rural farmhouse attacked by zombies, was shot in black and white for US$114,000 and grossed US$30 million worldwide, spawning five more Living Dead films. It was selected in 1999 by America’s Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The crowdfunding campaign perks include being part of a brain trust to help answer questions during pre-production, signed body parts, set visits and being in the film as a zombie who gets killed on camera. Origins will be set in the late ’60s and focus on a brilliant scientist who strikes a deal with the military that will give him all the resources he needs to finalise his work in exchange for what he later learns is a price all mankind will have to pay.

“I want to take back the zombie genre in the name of the legacy that my father created almost 50 years ago,” the younger Romero said. “I want to tell the origin story of the modern zombie in a way that my father wasn’t able to do so back in 1968.”

The project is the first time that the Romeros have collaborated on a film. The father has credits on more than 20 films; his son has shot six feature films. REUTERS

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