Bits 'n Pieces: Zombie Love, Hearing 'Voices' & More
The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision Blog is reporting that Summit Entertainment has hired Jonathan Levin to write and direct the zombie love story Warm Bodies. According to THR, the tone is like 'Twilight meets Shaun of the Dead', and the story follows an existentially tormented zombie named 'R' who begins an unlikely friendship with the human girlfriend of one of his victims. The blossoming relationship starts a chain reaction that will transform him, his fellow zombies and maybe the whole lifeless world.
What impresses me most about this story is that Isaac Marion self-published the original novel and sold it through his Web site before the publishing rights were picked up by Atria Books. See that kids, anything in this world is possible, never give up the dream.
Slash Film is reporting that Ben Stiller is up for the lead role in the film based on Michael R. Perry's Black Listed script The Voices.
Check out this description: After Jerry Hickfang accidentally kills a woman he works with at a bathroom fixtures factory, he begins taking advice from his cat and dog on how to cover his tracks and avoid trouble. Stiller is apparantly up for the role of Jerry. Sounds dark, color me intrigued.
Production Weekly is reporting that the Brothers Strause (Colin and Greg Strause) FX duo and directors of AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem will begin filming next month on their next feature Skyline (which IMDB lists as a 'thriller') and that Kate Mara, Eric Balfour & Laz Alonso have been cast. Also in production for the Brothers Strause is the Brett Ratner produced flick Mange.
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