SlashFilm have reported that Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson are 'loosely' attached to star in the film adaption of S.G. Browne's zombie novel
Breathers.
The book has only just been released, but already Diablo Cody (
Juno, Jennifer's Body) has expressed interest in producing the film version of the book.
Going the Distance screenwriter Geoff Latulippe has been approached to pen the script.
This is the synopsis Breathers from author
S.G. Browne's website:
Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket, to the SPCA, to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere.
According to SlashFilm Gordon-Levitt is slated to play Warner and Johansson would would most likely play the love interest, Rita.
Intriguing.