(Cbr) Eurythmics member and record producer Dave Stewart will begin production on a film adaptation of his Virgin Comics graphic novel "Zombie Broadway," Deadline reports. Described as a “horror musical,” "Zombie Broadway" lives up to the promise of its eye-catching title: usical theater actors fight off waves of the undead with the power of song. The 2008 graphic novel was created by Stewart along with David Harris and co-writer Christine Schenley. The film has already found a screenwriter and director in Cole Haddon (NBC’s "Dracula") and acclaimed music video director Jonas Akerlund, respectively. “I’ve always been obsessed with the idea of film married with a story and music,” Stewart said. “Jonas [Akerlund] has shot loads of music videos, but one of the first ones that caught my attention was ‘Smack My Bitch Up.’ I was not let down when I met him, not only with his wild imagination but his...
- 9/27/2014
- by Brett White, Comic Book Resources
- Hitfix
You would be forgiven for thinking that every possible zombie story has been explored by this point. But they’re a tricky, adaptable lot, those undead types, and Eurythmics co-creator, record producer, composer and, in 2008, comic book writer Dave Stewart thinks he has a good idea, adapting his Zombie Broadway title for the screen.Stewart originally created the graphic novel for Virgin Comics with David Harris and Christine Schenley. Now he has Jonas Akerlund on to direct and Cole Haddon writing the script.Zombie Broadway – which will also be a musical movie with tunes by Stewart and Michael Bradford – offers exactly what the title implies: a group of theatre performers have to see off a zombie epidemic with the power of show tunes. There’s no studio or financing company attached yet, but Stewart is hoping that it’ll be shooting at some point next year. Sounds like it could...
- 9/25/2014
- EmpireOnline
Exclusive: Eurythmics co-creator and record producer Dave Stewart is moving forward on Zombie Broadway, a feature adaptation of his 2008 Virgin Comics graphic novel about an undead uprising on the Great White Way. Along with The Butler producers Pam Williams and David Jacobson, Stewart has tapped Cole Haddon (NBC’s Dracula) to script and Spun helmer Jonas Akerlund to direct the horror musical in which a group of Broadway performers battle zombies with the power of showtunes. Start-up financing firm First Artist Ventures secured early development financing for the project and producers are taking the script to financiers and talent with the aim of filming in 2015.
Stewart created the original Zombie Broadway graphic novel with David Harris and Christine Schenley. He’ll executive produce the musical, described as The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Bullets Over Broadway, and has already written the music with Michael Bradford. During his three-decade career the...
Stewart created the original Zombie Broadway graphic novel with David Harris and Christine Schenley. He’ll executive produce the musical, described as The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Bullets Over Broadway, and has already written the music with Michael Bradford. During his three-decade career the...
- 9/25/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Rapper Lil Wayne's legal woes continue to mount as he is set to be served with another summons by a court while he's still behind bars. Michael Bradford alleges he hasn't received royalty payments for creating the beat for Wayne's hit single Mrs. Officer. The producer claims he was responsible for coming up with the beat, five years before it was reworked by Deezle, who was given the producer's credit for the song. The Lollipop hitmaker is set to receive the complaint for copyright infringement and a federal court summons before he finishes his term at New York's Rikers ...
- 10/9/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
London, Oct 8 – Rapper Lil Wayne’s legal woes continue to mount as he is set to be served with another summons by a court while he’s still behind bars.
Michael Bradford alleges he hasn’t received royalty payments for creating the beat for Wayne’s hit single ‘Mrs. Officer’.
The producer claims he was responsible for coming up with the beat, five years before it was reworked by Deezle, who was given the producer’s credit for the song.
The ‘Lollipop’.
Michael Bradford alleges he hasn’t received royalty payments for creating the beat for Wayne’s hit single ‘Mrs. Officer’.
The producer claims he was responsible for coming up with the beat, five years before it was reworked by Deezle, who was given the producer’s credit for the song.
The ‘Lollipop’.
- 10/8/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
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