Burton To Direct “Night of the Living”

Writer Seth Grahame-Smith is currently scripting a new film “Night of the Living” which Tim Burton is set to direct. Burton and Grahame-Smith have recently collaborated on the upcoming fantasy comedy film “Dark Shadows” and the duo are set to reunite on this new stop-motion feature. Seth Grahame-Smith known for his literary mash-ups Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is in the middle of writing the script, which is rumoured to feature a group of peaceful monsters, who come under threat from a human invasion.

Grahame-Smith told The Hollywood Reporter…

“Night of the Living is an idea I have had around for years that I’m doing with Tim Burton. When we were shooting Dark Shadows last year I worked up the nerve to tell Tim about it because I always thought it would make a good movie. When I saw what he had done with Frankweenie and Corpse Bride, it always struck me as a great idea for that form. I’m writing it at Warner Bros. for him (as a stop-motion monster movie).”

Tim Burton’s latest stop-motion feature “Frankenweenie” is due out later this year, and is a remake of the Burton’s 1984 short film of the same name. Like the 1984 version, it is a parody of and a homage to the 1931 film Frankenstein based on Mary Shelley’s book. In the film, a boy named Victor loses his dog and uses the power of science to bring it back to life…