Hollywood wilt een Dead Island film maken

RDJ134 19 februari 2011 om 19:25 uur

Afgelopen donderdag kwam deze trailer van de zombie survival horror game Dead Island uit, en deze sloeg letterlijk in als een bom. Het had een hele mooie montage, meeslepende muziek en had veel van een film weg. Deze video viel ook op in Hollywood en daar willen ze er nu een Memento (2000) achtige film van gaan maken, en we weten allemaal hoe dat gaat aflopen.

Sean Daniel (of The Mummy series, Dark Blue, The Wolfman), along with Richard Liebowitz and producer Dmitri Johnson, have been tracking the game's development for several years and acquired the rights early. But thanks to the success of that trailer, "studios and agencies are all over them, suggesting talent packages and story lines to try and make a screen deal" that will likely come together in the next week. The film is supposedly going to follow a Memento-like storyline even though the game doesn't, according to Deadline, and Union is currently working on the screenplay as well. The video game is about a family on vacation at an island paradise when a contagious zombie outbreak hits. They're cut off from the rest of the world and have to protect the other survivors and somehow escape without any guns, only the weapons found around there.

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