George A. Romero’s Empire Of The Dead to stagger to a TV near you
With The Walking Dead still going strong and a spinoff, Fear The Walking Dead, expected this summer, businesses is booming for one-note bad guys who eat brains. And it’s time to add yet another zombie TV series to the mix—an adaptation of George A. Romero’s Empire Of the Dead Marvel comic series. Demarest, a production-finance company that backed the films A Most Wanted Man and Tusk, announced at Cannes that it would develop the series, which will be written by Romero and his longtime producing partner Peter Grunwald. The two also will serve as executive producers.