Legendary filmmaker George Romero almost directed Marvel’s first movie Copperhead, a new documentary reveals. Romero sadly passed away in July at the age of 77 and left behind a strong body of work in the horror genre. He created the zombie movie with 1968’s Night Of The Living Dead, and followed it up with the equally acclaimed sequels Dawn and Day.
Outside of zombies, he helmed famous horror anthology Creepshow, vampire film Martin and Stephen King adaptation The Dark Half. The director also developed a number of promising, but tragically unrealized projects. For years he developed an ambitious, expensive adaptation of King’s The Stand that came to nothing, and he was the first director attached to the IT miniseries when it was intended to be 10 episodes. He also developed a gory remake of The Mummy in the early ’90s, which was ...
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