Radar Pictures to produce Origins

Ted Field will produce writer-director Cameron Romero’s zombie origins story.

Romero will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Darrin Reed and Bryce C Campbell based on a story by Romero.

Field will produce along with Aldo LaPietra, Campbell, Reed and Romero. Mike Webber and Thomas van Dell serve as executive producers.

Production has been earmarked for later this year on the Cold War story about a science experiment that goes wrong.

“I’m a longtime fan of Night Of The Living Dead,” said Field. “I have tremendous belief in Cameron.” 

“Origins is a great opportunity for me to continue the family tradition of creating haunting and ever-evolving depictions of the undead,and a great opportunity for Romero fans to see a story of zombie inception never portrayed before,” said Romero.