Another day, another comic book adaptation, another zombie movie… who says Hollywood doesn’t have any fresh ideas?
Don’t get us wrong. Empire loves us our comic book movies, and we gorge ourselves silly on zombie movies like they were tasy braaaaaaains. But it’s hard to get ourselves particularly worked up about the news that Gary Reed’s Image comic Deadworld is set to hit the big screen – even if the talented Watchmen writer, David Hayter, is on board.
Hayter will write and, because his company Dark Hero is producing, conceive the movie’s visuals and characters. Don't be surprised if he ends up directing...
"It's very much about the design of the Deadworld and creating cool, frightening but not necessarily gory creatures," Hayter told Variety. "I am a huge fan of zombie mythology."
The Deadworld of the title is Earth, four months after the onset of the zombie apocalypse. So far, virtually so every zombie movie made in the last 30 years. But Deadworld has a twist – the zombies are as smart as the humans, and have personalities and characteristics. Deadworld, in fact, will focus on King Zombie, a decaying biker who targets human survivors after they make him an outcast.
OK, that’s not bad, but Hayter is going to have to work his butt off to make this one stand out from the zombie pack, especially with the likes of **World War Z *and IRA Zombies on the horizon, right?
Hayter will share production duties along with Bill Mechanic, while Benedict Carver – the other Dark Hero partner – will executive produce, along with Reed. Production is pencilled in to begin next year.
Oh come on – did you really think we’d get through a story about a zombie movie without mentioning it?