Slash producing film adaptation of Steve Niles’ Wake the Dead

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

We’ve known since May of 2008 that Steve Niles and director Jay Russell aimed to bring the 30 DAYS OF NIGHT creator’s Frankenstein-esque tale WAKE THE DEAD to the big screen. Obviously, since then and now, there hasn’t been a whole lot of progress. At least, not that we’ve been privy to. But according to the LA Times’ Hero Complex, the project may just have gotten the boost it needs.

Slash – yes, that Slash – has formed a production company imaginatively labeled Slasher Films, and one of the first flicks on its slate is WAKE THE DEAD. Russell (WATERHORSE) is still attached to direct.

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