David Hayter of Watchmen fame will write the screenplay for Deadworld. The Deadworld screenplay will be an adaptation from the Deadworld Comic.
The Deadworld Comic was written and co-created by Gary Reid and it picks up 4 months after a apocalypse happens in which humans are overrun by flesh eating dead people. The Dead have already overtaken the Earth with humans almost wiped out but found here and there. One of the main characters is Protag, the Harley riding King Zombie who holds a grudge against the survivors that made him an outcast.
"It's very much about the design of the Deadworld and creating cool, frightening but not necessarily gory creatures," Hayter states. "I am a huge fan of zombie mythology."
This is the start of a possible franchise lurking in the wings. Production begins next year.