According to Variety, Charlie Huston’s vampire novel Already Dead is moving into production as a feature film. Mike De Luca of Mike De Luca Productions, along with David Thwaites and Brad Fischer of Phoenix Pictures will produce the film from a script to be written by Scott Rosenberg. Publisher’s Weekly called the book “an irresistible and fiendishly original take on the vampire myth.” In it, New York City is inhabited by both normal humans and the undead, who are divided into often-warring vampire clans. Private Investigator Joe Pitt, who, “like all vampires, is infected with a virus that requires him to drink blood regularly,” is hired to find the runaway teenage daughter of a socialite. “Meanwhile, a ‘carrier’ is on the loose, infecting its victims with a bacterium that turns them into brain-eating zombies.” Pitt is also hired by a vampire gang to “find and destroy the carrier, since the carnage the zombies are causing brings unwanted attention to the undead community.”
The producers may be looking to turn this into a series, since the second novel, No Dominion, was published at the end of December.