The Zombies of 'Pontypool' Are Coming!
IFC Films just announced it's picked up the rights to Pontypool, a film that can best be described as The Signal meets Private Parts. Actor Stephen McHattie (Watchmen, 2012) plays a radio shock jock who gets thrown off the air so many times he's forced to broadcast out of a church basement in the film's titular small town (essentially Podunk, USA). Unfortunately it seems his radio waves may be transforming the townsfolk into godless killing machines.
Pontypool is based on the novel Pontypool Changes Everything, by author Tony Burgess, who adapts his work for the screen. The film was an official selection of last year's Toronto Film Festival, and will have its U.S. premiere at SXSW in March. The film will have its New York City premiere in late March as part of the Museum of Modern Art's Canadian Front 2009, and IFC will be releasing the film theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on May 29th. Other cities and dates will follow. And on May 27th, Pontypool will be available in more than 50,000,000 homes via IFC On Demand. Maple Pictures will release Pontypool in Canadian theaters this spring.
