NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: ORIGINS Gets Voice Cast

Not too long ago, it was announced that George A. Romero’s classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD which has been remade back in 1990 and 2006, will get another treatment but this time instead of live-action, it will be CG and in 3D and Romero is not involved. That last part is the one that worries me, I mean, at least have him as one of the exec producer or something. As a big fan of the godfather of zombie flicks, I thought it was rude, but then Hollywood Reporter says director Zebediah de Soto has chosen his lead voice cast which de Soto called “a nod to Romero fans” Now that’s better, recognizing the original master and his followers! Check out the cast and their characters after the jump…

Jesse Corti (TV’s Heroes) is voicing a news reporter
Danielle Harris (Halloween II) plays a woman who held her family together forced to come to grips with its absence.

Bill Moseley (Carnivale) is reprising the role he portrayed in a 1990 live-action remake as a Wall Street-type with an expense account attitude.
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 all the ills of the world.
Cornell Womack (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) is a no-nonsense New York cop

Here’s what’s interesting.. de Soto wants to make NIGHT OF THE LIVING: ORIGINS CG 3D sort of like a living Monet, an expressionism, he called this project the ‘Empire of the Sun‘ of zombie films and then used the example of the L.A. riots in the 90s for the type of chaotic images that he’d want the movie to have. Technology-wise, this remake is in good hands because De Soto and his business partner Gus Malliarodaki designed a real-time effects system, known as ‘The Beast’, which allows filmmakers the ability to direct CG performances the same way they would direct real live actors. He’ll be using the CGI technology that he and his New Golden Digital effects company are developing. And unlike other zombie movies that tend to end in an enclosed environment, the last line of human defense set in a house, a mall or behind protective walls, he wants this to be different, to be the first zombie movie played on an epic scale. De Soto wrote the script with David R. Schwartz and it’s described as “An American style anime”.