The Dead Don't Die

The Dead Don't Die (2019)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Release date

2019-05-15

Country

Japan, Sweden, United States

Production

Film i Väst, Focus Features, Animal Kingdom, Chimney Sweden, Longride, Kill The Head

Genre

Comedy, Horror

Budget

$11 000 000

Revenue

$15 319 866

Website

https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-dead-dont-die

Director

Jim Jarmusch

Actors

Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Caleb Landry Jones, Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Steve Buscemi, Selena Gomez, Rosie Perez
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Scenario

Jim Jarmusch

Producer

Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan, Frederick W. Green, Norio Hatano

Operator

Frederick Elmes

Composer

Carter Logan

Artist

Jonathan Mosca

Audition

Ellen Lewis

Editing

Affonso Gonçalves, Justus McLarty
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• Tilda Swinton (who played Zelda Winston) suggested to director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch the idea of making a film about zombies during the filming of the fantasy thriller "Only Lovers Left Alive" (Jim Jarmusch, 2013).
• The giant anthills shown in the film are real, not props, and were discovered by chance while filming a scene with Tom Waits in the forest. Jarmusch liked them so much that he added a corresponding scene to the script.
• When three police officers drive to the cemetery, Ronnie Peterson, played by Adam Driver, leans out of the car window and decapitates one of the zombies. This zombie is dressed in the clothing of a character played by Bill Murray in Ruben Fleischer's 2009 horror-comedy *Zombieland*, and his hairstyle is exactly like Murray's.
• Initially, Jim Jarmusch wanted to cast Bruce Campbell as Mallory O'Brien, but he declined. It was then decided to rewrite the role for a woman, and Jarmusch offered it to Carol Kane, whom he had known since filming with Alexander Rockwell on the 1992 comedy-drama *Soup*. Kane did not object.
• When three police officers drive to the cemetery, Ronnie Peterson, played by Adam Driver, leans out of the car window and decapitates one of the zombies. This zombie is dressed in the clothes of a character played by Bill Murray in Ruben Fleischer's 2009 horror-comedy "Zombieland", and his hairstyle is exactly like Murray's.