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WEBTOON Productions and Lion Forge Entertainment Set a Live-Action Film Adaptation of WEBTOON Hit ShootAround

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Oscar-winning studio Lion Forge Entertainment and WEBTOON Productions Inc. are teaming up to bring the zombie horror-comedy ShootAround to the big screen as a YA live-action film. Aiyana K. White will pen the feature based on the WEBTOON webcomic of the same name with 28 million views by creator “Suspu” (Susanna Nousiainen).

In ShootAround, when the zombie apocalypse hits Penny Hall High, the state’s best girls’ basketball team must join forces with the boys they loathe to survive the most nightmarish scenario imaginable: 24 hours locked inside their high school with each other… and zombies. But mostly each other. Zombieland meets Bring it On in this life-or-death battle against a zombie outbreak and – perhaps more terrifyingly – teenagedom.

Lion Forge Entertainment founder and CEO David Steward II and President and Chief Creative Office Stephanie Sperber are producing and CJ Jones is developing the film for Lion Forge, which is also financing the script. President David Madden and Head of Global Film Jason Goldberg will executive produce for WEBTOON Productions. White is rewriting the script based on a previous draft by Mike Dow and Devon Kelly.

Dead Boy Detectives Gets its Main Cast

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The main cast for Dead Boy Detectives has been revealed. The comic series will be coming to HBO Max with a pilot in the works. George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri, and Kassius Nelson will star in the lead roles.

Created by Neil Gaiman, the Dead Boy Detectives was released as a comic series from DC Comics. The Dead Boy Detectives are Charles Rowland (Revri) and Edwin Paine (Rexstrew) who decide to not go to the afterlife and instead stay on Earth and investigate supernatural crimes. They’re joined by Crystal Palace (Nelson) who is a psychic medium. Dead Boy Detectives was published by DC’s Vertigo imprint with a story by Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham and art by Mark Buckingham and Gary Erskine.

Reports have even more cast including Alexander Calvert as Thomas The Cat King; Briana Cuoco as Jenny; Jenn Lyon as Esther; Yuyu Kitamura as Niko; and Ruth Connell who will play Night Nurse.

Steve Yockey is writing and executive producing the pilot. Jeremy Carver, Greg Berlanti, Sara Schechter, and David Madden are executive producing.

The series isn’t a guarantee and just a pilot is in the works. Gaiman has had success currently with American Gods at Starz, Lucifer formerly on Fox and now Netflix and The Sandman coming to Netflix. Gaiman has an overall deal with Amazon which airs Good Omens. Amazon is also readying based on Gaiman’s Anansi Boys.