Dead Island film gets a director

Fans of zombie slash-em'-up Dead Island will be happy to hear that the film adaption has finally recruited a director to get the show on the road. Zach Lipovsky, a fresh-face around Hollywood who just recently completed Leprechaun: Origins, will take the reigns and bring Dead Island to the silver screen.

Lipovsky was a contestant on Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett's 2007 reality TV show On the Lot, which saw budding filmmakers compete for a development deal. He made it to the final three.
According to a report from The Wrap, the Dead Island film will skip a theatrical release and exclusively debut on Sony's Crackle streaming service.

Following its debut on Crackle, the film will be available through video-on-demand services, DVD/Blu-ray, and TV. The film will reportedly be based on either the first or second game, or "something in between" from the perspective of survivors fending off the undead on an island paradise.

Though there's no word yet on a cast for the Dead Rising movie, but we know that Transformers franchise producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura will serve as executive producer on the film.
Tim Carter will write the script alongside Tomas Harlan for Contradiction Films, which recently produced the Mortal Kombat Legacy digital series.

The studio aims to get started on the Dead Island film in 2015 with no word yet on a release date.
Several other video game movies are currently in development, including Michael Fassbender's Assassins Creed film, Sony's Last of Us film and Blizzard's Warcraft film.

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