Frodo Baggins joins the Zombie apocalypse with Curse The Darkness
Elijah Wood, who is probably best known as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, is going zombie. Genre production company SpectreVision, which is made up of Elijah Wood and directors Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller, announced that their next project will be Curse the Darkness, an "anthropological zombie film."
Curse the Darknesswill begin shooting in late October in Louisiana. Jorge Michel Grau, who made his feature debut with film We Are What We Are, is set to direct. The screenplay was written by Brandon Maurice Williams. Casting is currently underway.
Curse the Darkness is SpectreVision's first zombie movie. Earlier this year, they released the Iranian vampire romance A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by Lily Amirpour and the horror-comedy Cooties.
In a statement, Elijah Wood said “We always said we wanted to stay away from the zombie genre, as it’s been so well covered, but when we read Brandon’s script, we encountered a take on the genre that simply had to be realized. Curse the Darknessis both a chilling exercise in horror and an incisive polemic against the conditions of illegal immigrants in this country.”
The “anthropological zombie film” comes out of real-world history. Plantation owners tried chemically-induced slavery around the time of the Haitian Revolution of 1803. Curse the Darkness updates the story to today and chemically infects undocumented workers harvesting sugarcane in Louisiana.
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