Variety tell us that two of yesterday’s film favorites, Judge Reinhold (pictured right) and Lea Thompson, are set to join-up with Ron Perlman and Jana Kramer in Gatekeeper, in which a simple mistake leaves three friends to defend their town from a zombie outbreak.
Isaac Meisenheimer wrote the script and will direct, and Circle of Confusion exec Stephen Emery will produce with production starting in September. “We intend to make a film in the vein of Shaun of the Dead for American audiences,” Emery tells the trade. If they can manage a film that’s a 10th as good as Shaun, we’re all for it! Stay tuned for more as it comes.
UPDATE
Just heard from director Isaac Meisenheimer, “Sam Huntington was just cast as our lead. His character ends up working the night shift at a cemetery opposite Ron Perlman’s character.”