{"id":129007,"date":"2026-02-10T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:51:30","slug":"queens-of-the-dead-director-tina-romero-plans-a-big-gay-shark-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129007\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens of the Dead director Tina Romero plans a big, gay shark movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 1968,\u00a0George A. Romero<\/a>\u00a0made his feature directorial debut with one of the greatest horror movies ever made,\u00a0Night of the Living Dead<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and while doing so, he also introduced the world to flesh-eating ghouls that became a new definition for the world \u201czombie.\u201d Romero, who passed away in 2017, went on to make several more zombie movies over the decades\u2026 and recently, his daughter Tina Romero made her own feature directorial debut with a zombie movie called Queens of the Dead (you can read our review\u00a0HERE<\/a>). Now that she has gotten her directing career rolling, Romero is ready to move on to her next project \u2013 and she told Fangoria<\/a> that she\u2019s planning a big, gay shark movie called Jawline (or that\u2019s the working title, anyway).<\/p>\n

Queens of the Dead<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how Romero described the Queens of the Dead screenplay she wrote with novelist and comedian Erin Judge during another interview with \u00a0Fangoria<\/a>: \u201cIt takes place over one night, at the beginning of the dead rising. We find ourselves at a big warehouse party in Bushwick. We\u2019ve got a party promoter for whom everything\u2019s going wrong, and her lead act has dropped out, so she needs to call upon a friend \u2014 a retired drag queen \u2014 to resurrect his drag, to come and save the night. And it turns out to be a night of many resurrections. And our motley crew of characters find themselves holed up in a Bushwick nightclub, having to decide \u2018do we get out of here or do we board the place up?\u2019 And they\u2019ve got to survive the night. It\u2019s about a group of non-fighters finding the survival skills deep within.\u201c<\/p>\n

Katy O\u2019Brian (Love Lies Bleeding),\u00a0Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow), Margaret Cho\u00a0(Fire Island), Cheyenne Jackson\u00a0(American Horror Story), Nina West (Rupaul\u2019s Drag Race), Jaquel Spivey (Mean Girls), Tomas Matos (Fire Island), Quincy Dunn-Baker (No Hard Feelings), Becca Blackwell (Bros), Shaunette Ren\u00e9e Wilson (Black Panther), Dominique Jackson (Pose), Riki Lindhome (Knives Out), Eve Lindley (Bros), and drag artist Julie J star in the film. George A. Romero\u2019s frequent collaborator Tom Savini and Gaylen Ross of\u00a0Dawn of the Dead<\/a>\u00a0also make appearances.<\/p>\n

Jawline<\/p>\n

Tina Romero and Erin Judge are also working on the script for Jawline together. Story details are being kept under wraps for now, but they said they envision the project as a cousin to Queens of the Dead in that it will be a \u201cbig, gay ensemble\u201d shark movie featuring \u201cbeautiful queer people on the beach.\u201d Sure, we\u2019ve seen a lot of shark movies over the years, but have any of them been as gay-themed as Jawline aims to be?<\/p>\n

Romero and Judge said that a Queens of the Dead sequel is also a possibility for them, sometime down the line.<\/p>\n

Have you watched Queens of the Dead, and are you interested in seeing a Tina Romero shark movie? Share your thoughts on Jawline by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n

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