News: What the Fear
'Already Dead' Five-Book Series
From Variety.com
A brand new adaptation of the Charlie Huston vampire novel Already Dead is being produced by Phoenix Pictures, also releasing Zodiac on March 2, and Mike De Luca Productions. Scott Rosenberg will write the script. Set to produce it is Phoenix's David Thwaites and Brad Fischer, along with Alissa Phillips co-producing. The Series revolves around a vampire who happens to be a private detective hired by a Gotham socialite to track down her runaway daughter. The city's vampires are afflicted with a virus that requires them to drink blood, and they run through the city in clans. A new virus that turns victims into carnivorous zombies threatens to upset the balance between humans and vampires.
