Occupant Entertainment and Deep Silver, the video game publishing label of Koch Media, announced today they are partnering to package, produce and finance a screen adaption of the popular hit video game franchise Dead Island.
Occupant plans to attach a filmmaker and fast track the project for a production start in Q1 of 2015. Set on a tropical island resort, Dead Island revolves around a Zombie outbreak and has become one of the most-successful new video game IPs in the last few years, selling over 8 million copies worldwide across all platforms.
Deep Silver has created a highly successful game franchise based on very cinematic, widely viewed and well received trailers, which provide a great template for launching a film franchise with a distinctive and commercial take on the zombie apocalypse,” says Occupant partners Joe Neurauter and Felipe Marino.
If you recall, Lionsgate had intentions to do a big screen film adaptation in 2011, but the studio ultimately removed it from its production slate.
