Well, it looks like the Dead Island movie IS back on again after all…
According to Comingsoon: “Occupant Entertainment and Deep Silver, the video game publishing label of Koch Media, announced today they are partnering to package, produce and finance a screen adaption of the popular hit video game franchise Dead Island. Occupant plans to attach a filmmaker and fast track the project for a production start in Q1 of 2015.”
The movie will be based on the game that is set on a resort island where a zombie outbreak ruins everyone’s holidays.
“Deep Silver has created a highly successful game franchise based on very cinematic, widely viewed and well received trailers, which provide a great template for launching a film franchise with a distinctive and commercial take on the zombie apocalypse,” says Occupant partners Joe Neurauter and Felipe Marino.
“The Dead Island universe offers a rich and unique setting that can expand beyond the pure gaming experience. We are very much looking forward to seeing Dead Island open up to new audiences and showing off the fun everybody at Deep Silver has with this brand,” says Dr. Klemens Kundratitz, CEO Koch Media.
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