Max Brooks and Avatar Press have announced Legendary
Television and Digital optioned the New York Times Bestselling Author Brooks’
Extinction Parade as an original property for development as a new television
series. Brooks is closely tied to the development of the project and will be
writing the Pilot episode.
“I only brought the idea to one company, Legendary,
because they do the kind of quality work of which any writer would be proud."
stated Brooks. “Max Brooks is a visionary with an incredible ability to tell
stories that deliver a fresh approach to the horrors that haunt our nightmares.
His work on Extinction Parade has been a stunningly rich tapestry of cultures
in decline and a biting indictment of the perils of privilege. It will make the
perfect television series to appeal to fans who have until now settled for
thinly veiled soap operas parading as horror,” said William Christensen,
Publisher of Avatar Press.
Legendary is the studio behind recent blockbuster film
300: Rise of an Empire and the upcoming release of Godzilla this spring. Their
slate of film projects has firmly targeted the pop culture and comic book
reading community and provided some of the best blockbuster genre movies ever
created. They bring the ideal approach to adapting a hit property like
Extinction Parade into a successful television series.
Brooks is known for his meticulously researched zombie
fiction and is the author of the bestselling novels World War Z and the Zombie
Survival Guide. Recently World War Z was adapted into one of the biggest
theatrical horror releases of 2013 and now Extinction Parade is set to follow
suit as an upcoming television series.
“While the comic series from Avatar continues, I am
thrilled to be working with Legendary to develop Extinction Parade into an innovative
new series for television,” stated Brooks.
As these two fan favorite undead species prepare to make
their television debut under the direction of Brooks’ definitive vision joining
programs like The Walking Dead and Hannibal as the best horror on television,
the first chapter of the Extinction Parade graphic novel series is set to
premiere this coming July. The trade paperback collection offers a unique
opportunity to step into the world of zombies vs vampires and experience a
terrifying new chapter in horror.
Extinction Parade, a softcover graphic novel with color
interiors is available for preorder from your favorite comic book retailer,
Amazon, and B&N, 6.5″ x 9.5″, 160 pages is on sale 7/1/14. – ISBN
978-1-59291-234-6 $19.99 (US).