Zombie Comic FRAGILE Grabs a Director

By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor
Date: Thursday, October 04, 2007
Source: Variety

More zombies are on the horizon thanks to Rogue Pictures (the same distributor as Wright's Shaun of the Dead), says Variety. The trade is reporting that Rogue has set director Eduardo Rodriguez in charge of adapting the zombie comic book FRAGILE to the big screen. Jeff Dixon penned the screenplay based on Stephano Raffaele's graphic novel. John Baldecchi, Justin Connolly, Pierre Spengler and Fabrice Giger are producing the pic.

Plot Concept: Centers on an airborne virus that has reduced much of the Earth's population to feral zombies. A recently undead soldier then teams with a female zombie and a human teenager, racing against time to find a cure before being hunted down by the soldier's former military unit.

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Comments/Responses

madmanic999 • Oct 04, 2007, 07:31am •

If they can reason well enough to hunt for a cure for themselves, other than being undead, how are they zombies? Why not just reason with someone, or even better, pretend they are alive.

monkeyfoot • Oct 04, 2007, 10:36am •

Yeah, madmanic. The plot seems kind of confusing. The soldier and the woman are already zombies or undead, but they still have enough faculties not to kill the teenager and also look for a cure? I guess you'll have to read the novel to get the nuances.

gauleyboy420 • Oct 04, 2007, 12:07pm •

Sounds Cool to me.
How can you guys complain about an original and different take on a zombie story , on the same site where I read 1,000,000,000 post about how unoriginal everything is and "why can't anyone do anything different"?
I guess you can't please everybody...and on this site it's even more rare to please anybody.
It' might be confusing, because it's new and different..just like a groundbreaking movie that revolutionized zombie movies... 28 Days Later
just as Night of the living Dead did the same thing 20 something years earlier.
OH MY GOD SOMETHING DIFFERENT, AND NEW RUN AWAY!, RUN AWAY!

galaga51 • Oct 04, 2007, 12:21pm •

Wait... so if the zombies are "feral", then what are we to make of this "recently undead soldier"? Does the feral-ness take a while to set in? And what of this female zombie? Is she feral or not? I do like the idea of the heroes running around with a "pet zombie" or something to that effect. Despite that confusion - and the becoming overused virus-to-zombie thing - I'm interested.

bear90 • Oct 04, 2007, 06:57pm •

It sounds like that Dean Cain zombie flick.
I'm going to wait for "House of Re-Animator".

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