Zom-com Didn't Die to release in theatres in March
- Carla Davis
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
Writer – Director Meera Menon’s zombie comedy Didn’t Die made its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in January as part of the fest’s Midnight section, earning positive reviews in the process. Now it has been announced that Didn’t Die will receive a theatrical release in March.
The film is about podcast host Vinita, who is played by Emmy Award winning Kiran Deol (of Destroy All Neighbors). Set during the zombie apocalypse, Didn’t Die shows Vinita trying desperately to build an audience for her podcast (which is called Didn’t Die) while the world around her is falling apart. At one point she expresses frustration that “Nobody told me the apocalypse was going to be so boring.”
As Vinita tries to navigate living as normal a life as possible under the circumstances, her ex complicates things by showing up with a baby.
Didn’t Die is Menon’s third feature film, but she also directed episodes of The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, The Man in the High Castle, The Terror: Infamy, You, Outlander and Westworld. That’s a pretty impressive genre-related resume.
Didn’t Die had its Sundance premiere only weeks after Menon’s Altadena home was destroyed in the LA fires. That was definitely a time of emotional turmoil for the writer director. She has proclaimed herself as being drawn “to the question of what still makes life worth living when everything else has come undone.” She compares being an indie filmmaker to being a podcaster in the midst of the zombie apocalypse, and ponders the grit it takes to keep going in the face of outside chaos.
Didn’t Die will release in theatres on March 6
Menon hails from Kerala, India, where her father Vijayan was both a film producer and one of the founders of Tara Arts, which is described in Wikipedia as “an English cultural ambassador for South India that showcases musicals and films." Inspired by her father, Menon began using his camera to shoot her own films as a child.
Her first feature directorial debut was called Farah Goes Bang, and after its screening at 2013’s Tribeca Film Festival, Menon was awarded with the first Nora Ephron Prize, which was given to her by Tribeca and Vogue. Fara Goes Bang was subsequently given awards at the CAAMFest and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Level 33 Entertainment acquired Didn’t Die, and their President Andreas Olavarria describes it as “a witty and poignant take on the classic zombie film, crafted by a group of truly remarkable filmmakers.”
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