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James Farr’s ‘Xombie’ Getting Big Screen Treatment!
It’s about freakin’ time! Literally years after being promoted here on Bloody Disgusting (five years to be exact), James Farr’s online animated horror series Xombie could be getting the big screen treatment thanks to DreamWorks! The studio is in negotiations to buy Xombie, a pitch about a zombie who is also a policeman, from cop-turned-scribe Will Beall, with Kurtzman and Orci in talks to produce. Read on for the skinny.
Watch the online animated series tat started it all here.
“Xombie” is based on a Devil’s Due comic book by James Farr, itself based on his online animated series. Farr’s creation centers on a zombie cop named Dirge who attempts to saves humanity’s remnants, particularly a young girl named Zoe, from evil zombies.
Beall, repped by CAA and Management 360, also is adapting his debut novel “L.A. Rex,” about a policeman patrolling the gang-ridden area of the 77th Division in South Los Angeles, for producer Scott Rudin.
DreamWorks is in negotiations to acquire the source material. The logline for the movie version is being kept under wraps.
If deals are closed, Cindi Rick and John Frank Rosenbaum of Epic Level Entertainment would exec produce along with Kurtzman/Orci’s Bobby Cohen and Steven T. Puri.
Beall is a former beat cop and anti-gang policeman in the 77th Division who recently became a homicide detective; he continues to serve in the LAPD while writing.
Like vampires, zombies are gaining currency in Hollywood, with Sony set to release Woody Harrelson zombie-comedy “Zombieland” next month. DreamWorks is developing “Rainbow’s Bridge,” based on the Japanese pic “Resurrection,” which centers on a group of the undead as they return to the lives they once led.
In addition to writing tentpoles such as “Star Trek” and “Transformers,” Kurtzman and Orci have taken on a number of projects as producers, boarding, among others, a family-action movie based on the View-Master toy that’s been set up at DreamWorks, and “Matt Helm,” a government thriller set up at Amblin and Paramount.
Steven Zeitchik reported from New York; Borys Kit reported from Los Angeles.
Ryan Gosling (Project Hail Mary) has made no secret of the fact that he’d love to play Ghost Rider in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, and it’s now officially happening.
Announced by Marvel out of San Diego Comic-Con tonight, Ryan Gosling will play the iconic Marvel character in a Ghost Rider movie being directed by Shawn Levy!
Expect Ryan Gosling to play Ghost Rider on the big screen in 2028.
Johnny Blaze is of course the most iconic and well-known Ghost Rider, selling his soul to Satan and becoming a supernatural badass. Nicolas Cage brought Blaze to life on screen in both 2007’s Ghost Rider and 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, while Gabriel Luna more recently played the Robbie Reyes version of Ghost Rider in the series “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Luna was set to star in his own Ghost Rider spinoff series in the wake of that small screen appearance, but that Hulu project ended up being squashed before it ever had a chance.
Fans have been waiting for Ghost Rider to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe for many years now, with Ryan Gosling making it clear that he’d love to bring the character back to life.
That Hollywood dream is coming true. Stay tuned for more as we learn it.
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