20 Mind-Blowing Facts About George A. Romero’s Living Dead Movies

16. Night Of The Living Dead Was Almost A Different Film Entirely

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Back when Night of the Living Dead was but a seedling in the minds of writer-director George A. Romero and his co-writer John Russo, it was originally going to be a teen horror-comedy.

An early draft of the screenplay focused on a group of extra-terrestrial teenagers who travelled to Earth via flying saucer to party with human teens complete with an incompetent cop named Sheriff Suck failing to thwart their adolescent antics.

Luckily, Romero and Russo decided a flying saucer was way beyond their budgetary constraints and eventually the idea morphed into the classic horror we know and love.

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