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‘Zombie Apocalypse’ Coming to a Theatre, Bookshelf & Console Near You
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman and Carlos Gallardo, who produced Robert Rodriguez’s Mexico Trilogy, are executive producing Chee Keong Cheung’s Zombie Apocalypse. UK-based Intense Prods will produce the flick, which will add mixed martial arts to differentiate the film from the traditional zombie tale.The project was developed to kickstart a trilogy, which will also include a graphic novel – published by Eastman’s Heavy Metal Publishing – and a video game.
Mark Strange and Steve Horvath co-wrote zombie pic. Cheung, a British-Chinese writer, director, most recently produced Bodyguard: A New Beginning, which Lionsgate will distribute in North America.
When zombies start to take control of the world they turn into malevolent versions of their former selves with any previous physical combat skills enhanced to almost superhuman level, making eradication near impossible. A squad of eight Special Forces soldiers are assigned a suicide mission to rescue a scientist from a city ruled by the undead.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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