The unconfirmed cast of director Zebediah De Soto's CGI "re-imagining" Night of the Living Dead: Origins is finally official. Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Joe Pilato, Alona Tal were all previously announced, but were unconfirmed. Well, dust off that tie and drive to the church because this cast is confirmed!
Moseley will return as Johnny, the part he played in Tom Savini's 1990 remake, and will likely play Johnny in every remake made from here on out. Harris will play Barbara, and Pilato (who appeared in Romero's Dawn of the Dead) and Tal will voice the Coopers.
The casting of Piluto and Moseley is obviously a calculated one, one De Soto explained is "a nod to Romero fans. Horror
is a genre and zombie movies are a subgenre that people have been
following for years and years." De Soto is one of those followers, and claims that Night of the Living Dead was his first horror movie (mine was eitherThe Thing or Saturn 3, just FYI).
Jesse Corti and Cornell Womack are also joining the cast as a news reporter and a police officer, respectively. And who are these actors exactly? Well, let us tell you. Corti has done voice over work on several video games and appeared in an episode of Kate & Allie, while Womack was the voice of Harlan Doyle in Far Cry, which was an awesome game.
Mos Def remains unconfirmed as the voice of Ben.
