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Rohan Campbell Joins Netflix’s Sea Creature Series As Series Regular
Rohan Campbell, star of the upcoming Silent Night, Deadly Night reboot, has landed a series regular role on Netflix’s still untitled sea creature limited series.
The untitled series is created by showrunner Jesse McKeown (“The Umbrella Academy”).
The limited series follows a grizzled fisherman who must fight to protect his family, his community, and his vanishing way of life when a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town.
Deadline, who announced the casting, notes that character details remain under wraps at this time.
Campbell joins previously announced cast members Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Dark Fate, Speak No Evil), Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”), and Josh Hartnett (Trap) as the grizzled fisherman fighting to protect his community against the aquatic threat. Natasha Henstridge plays a character named Jan in the upcoming series, and Joshua Close will play Officer Jaxon Noseworthy.
McKeown will serve as showrunner and executive producer with Jessica Rhoades through her company, Pacesetter UK. Chris Hatcher, Hartnett, Jamie Childs, Louise Sutton, and Sharon Hall also executive produce.
The series’ writers include Karen Walton, Perry Chafe, and Natty Zavitz. Jamie Childs, Helen Shaver, and Stephen Dunn will direct.
Campbell broke out in David Gordon Green’s Halloween Ends as the troubled Corey Cunningham. The actor also appeared in this year’s The Monkey from Osgood Perkins. Next, Campbell will star as Billy in the upcoming remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night for Cineverse, which just unveiled a teaser trailer last weekend at San Diego Comic-Con.
Netflix had us at “sea creature.” Here’s to hoping this sea creature series gets a proper title soon. Stay tuned.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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