By Ryan Parsons | Image property of respective holders, Variety.
Already Dead
With I Am Legend deep into production Phoenix Pictures and Mike De Luca Prods. are willing to gamble that the vampire genre will be the next big thing. The studios will team for a feature adaptation of the Charlie Huston vampire novel Already Dead.
Already Dead Comes to Life
If there is one thing Hollywood loves more than adaptations is is potential franchises. Lucky for Phoenix and Mike De Luca, Already Dead is the first book of a five-book series.
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.
Wait a second. Didn't we already encounter the same story in Blade II?
Scott Rosenberg has been given the task of writing the first film's script. Scribe is responsible for such films as Con Air and Beautiful Girls.
The second novel in the series, No Dominion, was just published.
For those of you who also caught the Blade II similarities, know that it was De Luca who helped launch the Blade franchise for New Line.
You will next see Phoenix Pictures' work in the Paramount/Warner Bros release of the David Fincher-directed Zodiac.
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