Italian production company Wildside is venturing into unexplored genre TV territory with an adaptation of the Spaghetti Western Zombie, “Garrett,” based on the eponymous Italian comic book which has a cult following in Europe, Variety reports.
“The comic book takes its cue from Sam Peckinpah’s classic western movie “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” with the twist that the Indians are zombies. Author Roberto Recchioni has described it as basically a mash-up of the “Pat Garrett” pic with George A. Romero’s Zombie movies. Is also turns the cowboys into glam heavy metal figures while keeping the historical context accurate.”
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The plan is to adapt the property into an English-language TV series likely to be shot in Spain with American actors, inspired both aesthetically and from a production standpoint by the Spaghetti Westerns that Sergio Leone shot in Spain which launched Clint Eastwood’s career. Lorenzo Mieli, head of Fremantle Italy, said he is in talks with U.S. broadcasters to come on board.
Mieli underscored he wants “Garrett” to have the same raw and realistic tone that Spaghetti Western epics are known for. “The zombies will look as realistic as possible,” he underlined.
