ZOMBIE VS. ROBOTS Comic Getting a Big Screen Adaptation
Sony Pictures is developing a feature film adaptation of an IDW comic book series called Zombies vs. Robots. They even managed to land Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Craig Borton, who co-wrote Dallas Buyers Club. The movie won’t by called Zombie vs. Robots, it’s actually going by the name Inherit the Earth. Andrew Adamson (Shrek, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) is attached to direct.
The comic series was launched in 2005, and it’s officially described as follows:
It’s tech prowess meets undead mayhem! Eisner Award-nominated team of artist Ashley Wood (“Popbot”) and writer Chris Ryall (“The Great and Secret Show”), a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies has only one chance at recovery – a team of robots that must protect and clone a lone surviving human baby. They just need to do this amidst the endless hordes of zombies who have been driven rabid by their frustration at inedible bots and their lust to eat the one living brain left on the planet.
This is a very different kind of film project for Borton, who has mostly been involved with heavy dramas. They other movie he co-wrote was The 33, which tells the the story of the trapped Chilean miners. This sounds like a project that he could really have some fun with though.
Michael Bay (Transformers) and Brad Fuller (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) are set to produce the film.