Benderspink seeks out Red 5′s Zombies of Mass Destruction
Production company Benderspink continues its comic-book roll, picking up the film rights to Red 5′s new horror/action series ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction #1.
Created by Underworld screenwriter and Marvel’s New Warriors scribe Kevin Grevioux, ZMD is the story of a government weapons program in which zombies are dropped into war zones at night to infect the enemy population. To control the spread, the walking dead are engineered to be photosensitive and dissolve with the rising sun. But when one fails to self-destruct in the Middle East, an elite team of soliders must infiltrate hostile territory to stop a growing zombie army.
Benderspink also has set up Y: The Last Man and Drafted at New Line, Pencilneck at Lionsgate and Pet Robots at Disney.
The Ticker
• Producer Andrew Lazar wants to film Jonah Hex in New Orleans, for a potential 2010 release. [Times-Picayune]
• Screenwriter David S. Goyer says he and director Christopher Nolan have “talked loosely” about a villain and theme for a third Batman movie. [MTV Movies Blog]
• After a rough start to its second season, NBC’s Heroes is ready for a rebound. “The double-edged sword of our fan base is they have a passion for the show,” says creator Tim Kring. “And that passion cuts both ways. It cuts towards, ‘You’re the greatest thing ever’ and towards ‘You’ve disappointed me.’ ” [The New York Times]
• Frank Miller asserts that The Spirit and Sin City “are fundamentally different”: “The only ways they resemble each other are the ways that I learned from Will Eisner: the use of black and white, certainly the rapturous approach to women.” [The New York Times]
• Director Zack Snyder explains the choice of music for the Watchmen trailer. [MTV Movies Blog]
• A Japanese poster has been released for 20th Century Fox’s live-action Dragonball. [ComingSoon.net]
• Although Michael Rymer was announced as director of Witchblade more than a month ago, it’s apparently still news. [Variety]
• The Iron Man DVD and Blu-Ray will be released on Sept. 30. [Video Business]
July 22nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I still think a return for Ra’s Al-Ghul, via a Lazarus Pit, with the introduction of Talia is necessary for a Batman film. Expand it, to really dig deep into Ra’s history and make it a truly global threat. Maybe not for Batman 3, but if there’s a fourth film that’s what I’d like to see. I am curious to know how the Nolans and Goyer plan to top TDK.
And hopefully the disturbing news about Christian Bale won’t screw all of this up. I want to believe it’s not true, but who the hell would make something like that up? If it is true, I sure hope Bale gets help, and soon.
On an unrelated note, I think Y: The Last Man has a lot of potential as a movie. I just hope Disney does it justice and doesn’t sanitize it.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:27 am
The Bale thing is now being described as a verbal assault, not a physical one.
May 25th, 2009 at 9:40 am
The Bale thing is now being described as a verbal assault, not a physical one.