Yeah, that's already a film, but like, it's out of copyright, innit? Which is why every Tom, Dick and Weinstein can produce their own sequels, remakes, or just put out the sort of cheapo DVD copies with badly Photoshopped covers you'll find for a quid in The Works. There was a mooted idea, around about the seventh season of The X-Files, that they might produce their own, episode-long remake of the black and white zombie classic - the first movie to depict the undead as shambling, cannibalistic corpses. Only they were going to get George Romero, who made the original film, to direct it. Oh, and his mate Stephen King was going to write it. King had already penned an episode for the show's fifth season, Chinga, which was obviously set in Maine and involved a creepy doll. It was actually his idea to do a monster-of-the-week tale based on Night Of The Living Dead, using his pull with frequent collaborator Romero to not only have him okay the idea but come in to direct it, too. The X-Files staff met with King and Romero yet, for some reason, it never came to fruition. The closest we got was an episode of Millenium about zombies, but that wouldn't have been nearly as odd as Mulder and Scully doing the "they're coming to get you, Barbara!" routine. Imagine if it was in black and white, too!
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
