Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg To Appear in New Romero Zombie Film!

Thanks to the keen eye of regular reader Kelly Shaw I came across this article on Fangoria tipping us to the fact that Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead have just had full body casts done as preperation for the duo to appear as zombies in George Romero’s upcoming Land of the Dead. How cool is that? A couple largely unknown guys from the UK make what is essentially a love letter to Romero’s films and the man himself responds by giving them a spot in the new one. Sweet. Current rumors have Dennis Hopper joing the Land of the Dead cast and it has just been confirmed that the film will shoot here in Toronto which makes us pretty much the zombie film capital of the world with Dawn of the Dead, the second Resident Evil film and now Land of the Dead all filming here in the past couple years. Rest assured that we’ll try and weasel our way onto the set once shooting starts …

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