Day of the Dead Show Will Premiere On SyFy this Fall

The Day of the Dead TV show will premiere in the fall. The series is based on George Romero's classic 1985 zombie movie.

As reported by Variety, the show will form part of SyFy's fall programming. Day of the Dead will be set in the first 24 hours of an undead apocalypse, and focus on six strangers who are brought together to survive. The showrunners are Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, who previously made the Netflix show Malibu Rescue and The Banana Splits Movie.

Several episodes are directed by Steven Kostanski, who helmed the recent comedy horror hit Psycho Goreman as well as 2017's The Void. In an interview with Bloody Disgusting earlier this year, Kostanski stated that the series "does have ties to the original movie," but didn't reveal any further details.

Romero's Day of the Dead was the third part of his zombie trilogy. It focused on the tensions between a scientific team and a squad of soldiers, as the two groups live together in an underground missile silo with zombie roaming the Earth above them. It was Romero's last zombie movie for two decades, with Land of the Dead following in 2005.

Day of the Dead isn't the only '80s horror movie that has inspired an upcoming SyFy show. The long-awaited Child's Play series Chucky also premieres in the fall, with franchise creator Don Mancini writing every episode and Brad Dourif returning to voice the killer doll.