Extinction Director Knows ‘Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires’
Russell Mulcahy (Resident Evil: Extinction) will helm Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires, a project being mobilized by CP Prods. partners Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters, according to Variety. Capitol Films’ David Bergstein will finance and sell the pic, which is based on a novel by Steven-Elliot Altman that’s the first in a three-book series. Protag is turned into a vampire as he and his lover are attacked in lower Manhattan. She dies, and he struggles to overcome his murderous instincts and thirst for blood through Zen meditation. A struggle for his soul ensues between the bloodsuckers and the zen masters. Altman is writing the script, and CP’s Cerenzie and Peters will produce. They are also working together on a game version of “Zen.”
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