Irish filmmaker John Moore has been assigned to direct a big screen adaptation of Virgin Comics' "Virulents" set to be distributed by 20th Century Fox.
- Aug 8, 2007
AceShowbiz - Previously directing war movie "Behind Enemy Lines" and horror flick "The Omen", John Moore is now mixing both genres into one in his newest film project.
That�s right, the Irish filmmaker is about to make "Virulents" based on the Virgin Comics graphic novel about a ragtag group of soldiers who stumble into a nest of vampire zombies. The soldiers, some from an American military unit, some from an Indian military unit, are depicted to be in search for a lost patrol in Afghanistan when they cross path with the blood-thirsty creatures.
Adapting the material into a script is "Sgt. Rock" scribe John Cox while Virgin�s Gotham Chopra and Sharad Devarajan will both produce alongside Moore and Seth Jaret. Pic will be developed at New Regency with 20th Century Fox to distribute.
Virulents is "set in a part of the world that has a long history of myth and mystery, and it's going to rock," so said Chopra.
