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‘The Final Girls’ Director Todd Strauss-Schulson Will Direct Comic Adaptation ‘Zombie Brother’
Tencent’s popular digital comic Zombie Brother is headed to the screen, we learned earlier this year, with STX Entertainment, Tencent Pictures and Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan’s Free Association production company developing the feature film adaptation. THR reports tonight that Todd Strauss-Schulson (The Final Girls) is in talks to direct.
The site notes, “The movie version is to follow a Chinese character who leads a ragtag team of New Yorkers in a fight to stay alive during a zombie apocalypse.”
“Todd is the perfect choice for Zombie Brother,” said STXfilms chairman Adam Fogelson. “His films thrive with a heart, energy, comic pace and visual inventiveness all their own.”
Strauss-Schulson also directed A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas and Isn’t It Romantic.
Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky) is staying busy here in 2024, directing not only the werewolf movie Big Bad but also an upcoming thriller titled Drop.
The project for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes is being described as a “fast-paced thriller,” and Deadline reports today that Violett Beane (Truth or Dare) has joined the cast.
Newcomer Jacob Robinson has also signed on to star in the mysterious thriller. Previously announced, Meghann Fahy (“White Lotus”) will be leading the cast.
Landon recently teased on Twitter, “This is my love letter to DePalma.”
Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach wrote the script.
Michael Bay, Jason Blum, Brad Fuller and Cameron Fuller — “who brought the script in to Platinum Dunes” — are producing the upcoming Drop. Sam Lerner is an executive producer.
THR notes, “The film is a Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse production for Universal.”
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