Day of the Dead, the 1985 film from the late George A. Romero, is being turned into a TV series for SYFY.
According to Deadline, the project was given a 10-episode straight-to-series order. Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas will write and serve as showrunners, while Stan Spry, Jeff Holland and Drew Brown (of Cartel Entertainment) and Robert Dudelson, James Dudelson and Jordan Kizwani (of HiTide Studios) will executive produce.
Part of Romero's Night of the Living Dead series, Day of the Dead takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where zombies drastically outnumber the living. The film centers on a group of scientists and soldiers barricaded in an underground facility in the Everglades while desperately seeking a cure for the affliction. Ultimately, only three members of the main group survive by flying a helicopter to a deserted island. As for the series, it's said to be "the intense story of six strangers trying to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion."
Although Day of the Dead is the poorest of the initial three Romero zombie films critically, it faired well financially, not due to its box office ($5 million worldwide on a $3.5 million budget) but due to its VHS, DVD and Blu-ray releases, which brought in over $30 million.