Sometimes you have to wonder if the suits behind a project even watch the previous directing efforts of filmmakers.
Legendary Entertainment is enlisting Leprechaun: Origins‘ Zach Lipovsky to direct the zombie survival movie Dead Rising for Crackle and executive producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, TheWrap reports.
Leprechaun: Origins is super disappointing, which is what makes this such a bizarre hire. Alas, people deserve second chances, and maybe Lipovsky will deliver with this vidgame adaptation?
Sony’s Crackle will give the 90-minute feature an exclusive digital release in the U.S. before the film receives a multi-platform release on SVOD, VOD, DVD and TV, while Content Media Corp. (“Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn”) will distribute both feature-length and episodic formats on international platforms.
Set during an epic zombie outbreak that a mandatory government vaccine failed to stop, “Dead Rising” debuted on the Xbox 360 console in 2006 and has since spawned a video game franchise that has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.
Tim Carter wrote the script and will produce with Tomas Harlan via their Contradiction Films banner, which also produced Machinima’s successful digital series “Mortal Kombat: Legacy.”
