Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Boneshaker

11/30/11 - Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive Media Group are teaming on a film adaptation of Cherie Priest's period zombie novel Boneshaker, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  John Hilary Shepherd will write the screenplay.  Priest's book falls within the steampunk genre of science fiction, whereby a sci-fi or fantasy story is set during the Victorian era.  Boneshaker is set in an alternate version of 1880s Seattle. The city has been walled in and a toxic gas has transformed many of the remaining residents into Rotters, otherwise known as zombies. A young widow searching for her teenage son must deal with the Seattle underworld, airship pirates and heavily armed refugees.

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