(UTV | COLOMBO) – Oscar-winner Colin Firth has signed on to star in “New York Will Eat You Alive,” an action-comedy film adaptation of the digital comic “Zombie Brother” at STXfilms and Tencent Pictures.
The top title on Tencent’s digital comics platform, the story follows a young man who lives in H City which has a populous slowly turning into zombies via contaminated water. As they devour one another and evolve in different ways, the young man seeks escape.
Created by Jia Haibo, the comic is said to have over 28 billion views while its animated series has amassed more than 3.7 billion views across its first two seasons. The franchise has also already been adapted into a stage play.
Alex Rubens wrote the screenplay with current revisions by Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. Todd Strauss-Schulson (“Isn’t It Romantic”) is attached to direct the adaptation while Channing Tatum, Reid Carolin, Peter Kiernan, and Ged Doherty will produce.