Dimension Films recently bought the movie rights to Steve Niles' comic horror series Wake The Dead, with X-Men 2's Mike Dougherty adapting the comic to screenplay.
WTD is a face-flattening take on the classic story of reanimating the dead presenting an overbearing and overzealous Victor, a young intellect bent on "curing death" by using crash victims for spare parts and the brain of his close, self-destructed friend. If only I had had friends in the mortuary business growing up ...some people get ALL the breaks!!! Wake The Dead started out as a 5-issue series, has since been collected into a 128-page trade paperback and features splattering artwork by the ever-irreplacable Chee. More info TBA!!!
Fans of Steve Niles are also happy to know that Niles' bloodbath
30 Days of Night is churning into a film produced by non other than Evil Dead's Sam Raimi.