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Zombie Webcomic ‘ShootAround’ Set for Live-Action Feature Adaptation
Zombieland meets Bring It On in the young adult horror-comedy ShootAround, based on Susanna “Suspu” Nousiainen’s webtoon comic that has amassed 28 million views.
Variety reports that Aiyana K. White (“The Night Agent”) is writing the feature adaptation, with a previous draft by Mike Dow & Devon Kelly (“Inside Job”).
When the zombie apocalypse hits Penny Hall High, the state’s best girls’ basketball team must join forces with the boys they loathe to survive the most nightmarish scenario imaginable: 24 hours locked inside their high school with each other… and zombies. But mostly each other.
Lion Forge Entertainment’s David Steward II and Stephanie Sperber are producing, with Webtoon Productions’ David Madden and Jason Goldberg serving as executive producers.
“I devoured all 70 chapters of the webcomic’s first season in one sitting,” commented White. “I was taken not only with how funny and absurd it was, but also with how much heart was at the center of it. I’m so excited to bring such a fun, unique world to life.”
“ShootAround is a fresh, high-energy take on both the zombie and teen sports genres, balancing humor and horror with a character-driven edge,” said Steward. “Partnering with Webtoon Productions and Aiyana brings together an incredible creative team to reimagine this fan-favorite story in a way that feels fun and wildly entertaining for today’s audiences.”
“We’re always looking for standout IP with the potential to grow beyond a single format, and ShootAround is exactly that,” added Sperber. “It’s a bold, high-concept world with a built-in global fanbase and the kind of dynamic characters that lend themselves to long-term franchise storytelling.”
“When the zombie apocalypse makes its way to high school, all bets are off, and we knew the hilarious and horrific moments in ShootAround would make for a one-of-a-kind, genre-blending film adaptation,” said Goldberg. “We’re thrilled to have the incredibly talented Aiyana K. White and the exceptional producing team at Lion Forge as our teammates on this project. This is going to be the adaptation fans have been waiting for!”
The ShootAround webtoon is available to read for free online.
Zach Cregger is no stranger to violent movies, with his first two at-bats in the horror genre yielding the films Barbarian and Weapons. But even those movies can’t compete with the level of violence on display in his next movie Resident Evil, he teases in a new chat.
Zach Cregger tells Empire Magazine that Resident Evil is “definitely the most violent thing I’ve done.” He teases, “You gotta go grotesque! I wanted to go all the way.”
“So it’s gnarly. It’s brutal,” Cregger continues. “A very bloody affair.”
He also tells Empire, “Fleshing out what [the Umbrella Corporation is] up to and how the T-virus works, that’s not what this movie is. This movie is about one dude’s journey on foot, fighting monsters. I don’t give a fuck about checking boxes. All I cared about was just telling a fun story. We step on the gas at about eight minutes in and never take our foot off the floor.”
Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons).
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.
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