‘The Dead 3’ – Apocalyptic Zombie Trilogy Capper in the Works from Original Filmmakers

The Dead — a daring indie zombie film shot on location in dangerous parts of West Africa — was unleashed in 2010. The scope of the global apocalypse increased with The Dead 2: India in 2013.

15 years after it all began, original filmmakers Howard J. Ford & Jon Ford are back with The Dead 3.

The trilogy capper promises to be the most explosive, hard-edged, brutal one of them all, offering an original take while staying true to the classic roots.

With the world in chaos, a man, torn apart by the murder of his family, uncovers a global conspiracy which has brought the flesh hungry dead back to life.

He will stop at nothing to battle his way across a deadly landscape to unleash violent revenge on the greedy, super rich hiding in paradise, in secure island fortresses, waiting to inherit what remains as the world burns in a fire of their own creation.

“I wrote The Dead 3 with more terror, anger, and rage coursing through my veins than any ‘sane’ human being should ever know,” said Jon Ford. “This, the final and most important film of the trilogy, is going to shock, outrage, and please, in equal measure. It’s been a long time coming.”

“I get asked almost every day if we are ever going to make The Dead 3,” added Howard J Ford. “Given the challenges and real life near-death of both 1 and 2 on the incredibly arduous productions we’ve not yet jumped at it, but with Jon’s fiery inspirations to dive back in with a killer script I feel 2026 is the now-or never for the third and final chapter.”

Stay tuned for more details on The Dead 3, including its setting.

Meanwhile, Howard J. Ford is working on two other horror movies: Bone Keeper, a cave-set creature feature with John Rhys-Davies, and The Hatchery, an ocean-set survival horror film led by Terrifier‘s Jenna Kanell.