Night Of The Living Dead gets 3D remake and origin story

They're coming to remake you, Barbara!

File this on the close-to-collapsing stack of 'Films no one asked to be remade'. Some bright spark realised there hasn't been a zombie movie released for, ooh, two weeks, and greenlit a 3D remake of George A. Romero's Night Of The Living Dead. Want to feel even more outraged? It'll be an origin story. And it'll be in 3D. And presumably smell-o-vision. Have a whiff.

Night Of The Living Dead: Origins will be made by first-time director Zebediah de Soto, who hops onto the project fresh from his magic roundabout. Simon 'Tomb Raider' West will produce. The look they're going for is apparently "American-styled anime", which means absolutely nothing to anyone.

This isn't the first time a Romero project has been mangled by another; Zack Snyder's Dawn retooling was pretty slick, but the Day Of The Dead re-do was as braindead as its deadites.

The whole appeal of Romero's zombie apocalypse was that it came out of nowhere and was largely unexplained. How exactly might an origin story improve on the original? Who cares! 3D zombies! $$$$$!