A new poster has been revealed for the upcoming Day Of The Dead television series. The show is based on George A. Romero's classic 1985 horror movie about a zombie apocalypse. The TV reimagining was announced in February of 2020 and is set to premiere on October 15 on Syfy. The show is connected to the original film, but follows new characters during the first day of a zombie invasion.
In anticipation of the series premiere, Syfy has released a new poster for the show that combines environmental anxiety with an undead threat. The image revolves around a "zombie sun" with rays that alternately appear as images from a zombie invasion and an environmental collapse. The illustrated poster was made by “Ghoulish” Gary Pullin, a friend of the show's director Steven Kostanski, who says he approves of the first few episodes of the season. Check out his comments and the poster below:
"The creative team at SYFY asked that some of their political themes were incorporated into the piece and they wanted the image to be bright, bold and have a sense of humour so we came up with the “zombie sun” concept. The rays gave me the opportunity to hide tons of easter eggs from the series."
The poster offers a little more information about Day Of The Dead's themes and content than what's been made available so far. An epic, action-packed trailer released back in July promises plenty of exploding corpses infiltrating a still pre-apocalyptic small town. The trailer doesn't focus on the political themes Pullin mentioned, but climate change clearly plays enough of a role in the show to feature prominently on its poster.
Day Of The Dead's core characters include a high school senior (Keenan Tracey), the mayor's son (Daniel Doheny), an assistant mortician (Natalie Malaika), a former Special Forces member (Morgan Holmstrom), and a life coach (Kristy Dawn Dinsmore). Syfy describes the series' plot as following "a group of strangers trying to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion." The platform also says that this "ode to George A. Romero’s famous flesh-eaters" aims to remind us that, sometimes, "all it takes to bring people together is a horde of hungry zombies trying to rip them apart."
Source: Syfy/Gary Pullin
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