Rob Thomas, who is still basking in the solid debut of his Kickstarter-funded Veronica Mars movie, is planning major changes in his adaptation of the Vertigo iZombie comic by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred. The project, which is now in full pilot production mode stars New Zealand actress Rose McIver (The Lovely Bones) as Liv (see "CW Orders 'iZombie' Pilot"). In spite of its title, this will not be typical zombie horror show, but a police procedural that is more in the vein of Chew than The Walking Dead.
Speaking to IGN, Thomas explained: "The studio and network want a new cool female lead on the CW. They want something in the vein of Buffy or Veronica Mars, so they’re asking me to write in the tone that I normally write in. It will not be a zombie apocalypse show. It will be a fun, smart, funny female lead who happens to be a zombie. She has to eat brains in order to survive... We’re not sticking that close to the comic. The thing that we’re taking from the comic is the mid-20s female zombie who eats brains and gets the memories of the dead, but we put her in the coroner’s office so there’s a case of the week each week where she gets snippets of memories each week and tries to solve the crime."
Now a Police Procedural with a Sexy Heroine
Posted by ICv2 on March 18, 2014 @ 11:37 am CT
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