Based on the sci-fi horror comic book
Studio 407 announced today that their sci-fi horror property Night and Fog has been optioned for film by renown producer Gil Adler and Shane McCarthy via the following press release.
No stranger to comic book material, Adler has produced such comic book films as Constantine, Superman Returns, as well most recently Dead of Night which was based on the popular Italian comic book Dylan Dog (read interview here).
“This material is definitely in my strike zone in more ways than one,” says Adler. “Having produced the Tales from the Crypt series and some Dark Castle horror films, I can say horrorâs a genre I know intrinsically. But what really appealed to me wasnât so much the genre trappings, but rather the characters that really drive this story. Itâs a great high-concept that blends the gothic horror of the Hammer films with the sci-fi horror of Aliens and The Thing.”
Tied to an unsolved mystery from World War 2, Night and Fog, tells the story of a ‘Frankenstein’ like infectious mist unleashed on a military base that transforms its victims into preternatural creatures of the night. But when the survivors try to kill them, they adapt and change into something even more horrific and unstoppable. Caught in between, is a security officer on the base who must escape this gauntlet of horror to save his children before the creatures kill them or the fog infects them.
Night and Fog is currently available in comic shops in the single issue format and digitally on I-Phone through Comixology. It will be hitting stores in a trade format April/May 2010.
Source: Comic Book Resources
