I love how Syfy continues to reward The Asylum for making intentionally awful movies.
The cabler has given a series order to “Z Nation,” an action-horror series set in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, Variety reports.
The 13-episode series produced by The Asylum, the company behind the idiotic “Sharknado”, is set three years after a zombie virus gutted the country. It follows a team of everyday heroes tasked with taking the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood. But things aren’t as easy as they seem: Although the antibodies the survivor carries are the world’s last (and best) hope for a vaccine, he also hides a dark secret that threatens them all.
“‘Z Nation’ will take viewers where no zombie has gone before,” says Schaefer, who will also serve as showrunner. The show, he continues, adds “a sense of hope to the horror of the apocalypse –- our everyday heroes take the fight to the zombies. It’ll be an epic journey unlike anything you’ve seen before.”
“’Z Nation’ is a unique new journey into the long established zombie genre,” Chris Regina, Syfy’s SVP of programming. “Instead of existential despair, the series offers hope that somehow, some way, humanity will not only survive, but triumph. In producing their first ever weekly series, our long-time partners The Asylum have created a different way of telling an iconic story.”
Yes, The Asylum is known for telling iconic and deep stories. Sigh.
“Z Nation” will premiere in this fall.