LIVING DEAD: ORIGINS casting and plot info

There's been some casting news and plot info for Night of the Living Dead: Origins, the upcoming 3D CGI spinoff based on George Romero's 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the voice cast will include Jesse Corti, Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal and Cornell Womack - a crew with a number of names familiar to horror fans, with one actor playing the same part he played in an earlier entry in the series.

Corti ("Heroes") is voicing a news reporter, and Harris ("Halloween II") plays a woman who held her family together forced to come to grips with its absence.

Moseley ("Carnivale") is reprising the role he portrayed in a 1990 live-action remake "Living Dead": a Wall Street-type with an expense account attitude.

Pilato, who appeared in 1978's "Dawn of the Dead," is voicing Harry Cooper, a blue-collar worker who lives for his injured daughter, and Tal ("Supernatural") voices his wife, Helen, who blames her husband for all the ills of the world.

Womack ("Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen") is a no-nonsense New York cop.

Zebadiah De Soto, the film's spectacularly named director, described the film as an unlikely-sounding mix of Spielberg and the LA Riots.

"I wanted to make this look like a living Monet; it's expressionism," De Soto said. "It's going to be the first zombie movie played on a epic scale. This is the Empire of the Sun of zombie films. ... I lived through the L.A. riots and saw the city on fire; I remember seeing people running, people getting pulled out of cars. And with 9/11, these images have been ingrained on people of my generation. I just thought that is the way it would really be, a lot of chaos."

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