George A. Romero's New Zombie Film ROAD OF THE DEAD is About Car Racing Zombies

Have any of you ever wondered what crossing Death Race, Ben Hur and Night of the Living Dead would be like? Yeah, me neither. But zombie mastermind George A. Romero seems to. His next project, Road of the Dead, is a movie all about zombies racing cars to entertain rich people. Romero, who is known for the iconic zombie flicks like Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, will not direct Road of the Dead, but he will, however, co-write (with Matt Birman) and produce. 

Indiewire.com describes more about the project:

'...the story is set on an island where zombie prisoners race cars in a modern-day coliseum for the entertainment of wealthy humans. Birman describes the project as Road Warrior meets Rollerball at a NASCAR race, with significant inspiration from Ben-Hur."

The premise sounds pretty ridiculous, and I know we can blame the over saturation of all things zombie into our culture. With just about every zombie idea done either on the big screen, in television or video games, filmmakers are kind of forced into coming up with something like this that is a bit over the top. But then again, this could be something in the spirit of Sharknado, a movie that is so bad its good. We will see.