Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Chloë Sevigny unite to defend their quirky small town from zombies in the first trailer for The Dead Don’t Die, the upcoming horror-comedy from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. The clip opens with the zombies unleashing their wrath on a small diner, and the local police — Murray, Driver and Sevigny — arrive on the scene to assess the bloody aftermath. “This is really awful,” Murray says. “Maybe the worst thing I’ve ever seen.” Driver dismisses the theory of a wild animal attack, suggesting a more sinister alternative: “I’m thinking zombies — you know, the undead. Ghouls.” Swinton’s character, a mortician with an affinity for Japanese swords, appears to be the most prepared for the post-apocalypse. “I’m quite confident in my ability to defend myself against the undead,” she says, unsheathing her weapon and launching a killing spree. The trailer also features cameos from a scraggly Tom Waits (“Welcome to my world, zombies,” he intones), an undead Iggy Pop, a concerned Danny Glover, a creeped-out Selena Gomez and a mid-zombie-grip Steve Buscemi. The all-star cast also includes RZA, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Sara Driver, Carol Kane, Austin Butler and Luke Sabbat. The Dead Don’t Die, out June 14th, is Jarmusch’s first project since his 2016 documentary on the Stooges, Gimme Danger.<doc-sep>ALBANY — The first trailer has dropped for a zombie comedy filmed in the Catskills. "The Dead Don't Die," directed by indie maestro Jim Jarmusch, stars Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloë Sevigny as members of a small-town police force contending with your standard undead invasion.<doc-sep>The first trailer for a star-studded zombie movie shot in Upstate New York is building excitement. Writer-director Jim Jarmusch released the first look at “The Dead Don’t Die” on Monday, showing Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloe Sevigny as small-town cops battling the walking dead. “I’m thinking zombies,” Driver’s character tells a shocked Murray. “You know, the undead. Ghouls.” The “greatest zombie cast ever disassembled” also includes Selena Gomez, Danny Glover, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, RZA, Carol Kane, Austin Butler, and Tom Waits. The preview clip shows Swinton slaying zombies with a samurai sword and Kane rising from the grave to consume chardonnay, not brains. “The Dead Don’t Die” is a zombie comedy set for release on June 14, 2019. Plot details have been kept under wraps, but it is not a remake of the 1975 film of the same name. Much of the cast was spotted filming on location in the Hudson Valley region last year. Murray, Driver and Sevigny were seen wearing police officer uniforms on set in Kingston and Fleischmanns, N.Y. Murray previously played with the genre in the 2009 film “Zombieland," and is rumored to be making in appearance in the upcoming sequel, “Zombieland 2,” with his “Ghostbusters” co-star Dan Aykroyd. However, Murray said that he will not be playing a zombie in “The Dead Don’t Die,” his third movie with Jarmusch after “Broken Flowers” and “Coffee & Cigarettes.” “I’ve got a good job coming up. Brace yourself: It’s a zombie movie," Murray told Philly.com last year. "Jim Jarmusch has written a zombie script that’s so hilarious and it has a cast of great actors: Rosie Perez, Daniel Craig. It’s titled ‘The Dead Don’t Die,’ and it shoots over the summer. But, no, I will not play a zombie.” It’s unclear if Daniel Craig, best known for playing James Bond in “Spectre” and other 007 films, is still a part of the cast. Laurent Rejto, director of the Hudson Valley Film Commission, told the Poughkeepsie Journal in 2018 that “The Dead Don’t Die" was on track to provide an even greater economic boost to the region than John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place,” which was filmed in Little Falls, Pawling, and Beacon in 2017. Krasinski is returning to direct the sequel, expected to film in Upstate New York again (thanks in part to New York State Film Tax Credits) with his wife Emily Blunt.<doc-sep>The Dead Don’t Die’s first trailer teases another entry in the crowded genre of star-driven zombie films. But there’s presumably more going on beneath the shambling exterior. The film is directed by Jim Jarmusch, the art house luminary known for Down by Law, Dead Man, and Limits of Control. Jarmusch has riffed on popular genres throughout his career, most notably with the 2013 vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive and the 1999 mob-meets-ninja mashup, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. Similar to those films, The Dead Don’t Die appears to meld traditional Hollywood staging with Jarmusch’s deadpan dialogue and tone. The Dead Don’t Die partners Jarmusch with some of his recent leads. He previously worked with Adam Driver in 2016’s Paterson, Bill Murray in 2005’s Broken Flowers, and Tilda Swinton in Only Lovers Left Alive. The full cast includes a bundle of other Jarmusch collaborators and indie icons: Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Selena Gomez, Carol Kane, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat, and of course, the one, the only Tom Waits. The Dead Don’t Die hits theaters on June 14.<doc-sep>
Focus Features has released the first trailer for ‘The Dead Don’t Die,” the newest zombie horror comedy from Jim Jarmusch, starring Adam Driver and Bill Murray as two deadpan cops. The film was written and directed by Jarmusch, known for "Coffee and Cigarettes" and “Broken Flowers.” With its ‘60s b-film vibe and added humor, the trailer sports the “greatest zombie cast ever dissembled.” This start-studded cast has everyone from Chloe Sevigny to RZA. Tilda Swinton plays a mortician as we see appearances from Iggy Pop, Carol Kane, Tom Waits, Steven Buscemi, Selena Gomez and Danny Glover. The trailer first introduces the zombies as they walk towards a diner closing down for the night. But, naturally, because they're zombies, they attack the waitresses asking them kindly to leave. When the cops, played by Murray, Driver, and Sevigny, arrive on the bloody scene the following day, they suspect wild animals, but when Murray asks Driver what he thinks he says point blankly, “I’m thinking zombies. You know, the undead. Ghouls.” But these zombies aren’t your regular zombies. These undead try to live their old, normal lives by resuming whatever it was they enjoyed previously, like playing tennis or drinking coffee. As a series of things go wrong and with zombies taking over in the small town of Centerville, Driver nonchalantly notes, “Oh man, this isn't going to end well." “The Dead Don’t Die” will be released on June 14. Follow Virginia & PhillyVoice on Twitter: @vastreva | @thePhillyVoice Like us on Facebook: PhillyVoice Add Virginia's RSS feed to your feed reader Have a news tip? Let us know.