Apparently it’s not just ‘World War Z’ that has trouble getting made these days:

It had been reported that director Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) purchased the rights to a film about a girl who transforms into a zombie over the course of six agonizing months, but it appears that movie is back on the market.

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The budget for the small zombie drama Maggie is being hailed as a cool $5 million. Bekmambetov was reported earlier to have won the rights to produce the zombie drama after an auction with six other bidders. Deadline had reported that deal as done but that doesn’t appear to be the case anymore. Henry Hobson was tentatively hired to direct the film and if you haven’t heard of him before, he’s new to the director’s chair.

Hobson does however have a background in VFX and created the intro sequence for Guy Ritchie’s updated take on Sherlock Holmes.

We’ll try not to hold that against him.

Here’s hoping ‘Maggie’ turns out to be a Zombie Friendly counterweight to the seemingly inevitable ‘World War Z’ onslaught.

We previously reported on ‘Maggie’ here on the ZRC blog.

Tags: Mainstream Media, Max Brooks is a Jerk, Movies

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