John Russo looking for the right victims in Escape of the Living Dead!

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

Hey NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD fans, you’re going to love this one. You remember your old pal from the NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION? Yes? I’m sorry. No? Watch it so I can mourn for your brain cells. This man will surely live in infamy after that car wreck. It’s looking like Russo is busy trying to piece together a zombie flick in the coming year called ESCAPE OF THE LIVING DEAD. 

Oh you’ve heard about it? ESCAPE OF THE LIVING DEAD was a five issue comic mini-series written by the Russo himself. The comic first launched in 2005 and now it’s looking like it’s trying to catch itself a 2011 premiere. A company in Germany seemed to have picked up the rights already. Here’s the synopsis for all your viewing pleasure: “1971: It’s been three years since the blood-soaked night that the dead rose from their graves, attacking and devouring the living. Now, the legacy of that horrific and unexplained event is about to be unleashed once again upon an unsuspecting world… But this time, there may be no escape for those in the terrifying clutches of the cannibalistic, living dead! Hidden within the concrete walls of a secret medical research lab, someone has been studying the last remaining undead remnants of the marauding zombie army.”

Maybe this won’t be frustrating after all. It certainly seems that we’re going back into the roots of the DEAD series. Is it a homage to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD or will it be something else entirely?

Russo is going to begin shooting some time in Late October (Just in time for THE WALKING DEAD) or early November. Here we have casting info that he’s looking for so you’re going to get some time of taste on what’s to come. 

[SALLY] 18. Beautiful, athletic, heroic. When confronted with adversity, she rises to every challenge… including wiping out zombie scum. NAME ONLY. LEAD

[HENRY] 40s, doting, concerned father of Sally. He would do anything for his family but is not inherently confrontational. He is faced with the inner turmoil of balancing his paternal instincts with his non-confrontational ways when the zombie plague threatens Sally. STAR NAME ONLY…LEAD

[HONEYBEAR] Mid to late 20s. Biker Chick girlfriend of Neo Nazi leader, Bearcat’s. Going against the grain, she is not some beat-up druggie, but instead is quite a stunner, blonde and beautiful and “Aryan” — and cruel. LEAD. TOPLESS NUDITY REQUIRED

[DR MELROSE] Head of his own research facility, studying the causes, effects and benefits of zombie-ism. STAR NAME ONLY

So what do we have here folks? Sounds like your typical horror-feast or are we going to see stardom out of this? Leave us a comment below!

Jennifer Sky