WARM BODIES, the romantic zombie thriller based on the novel of the same name by Isaac Marion, already boasts an impressive cast, including Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry and John Malkovich – and now three more actors have boarded the flick.
According to Variety,
Analeigh Tipton, Dave Franco and Cory Hardrict have all climbed into the WARM BODIES casket. Jonathan Levine (50/50) is directing from his own screenplay.
Tipton (CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE) is in negotiations to play Nora, Palmer’s best friend, who struggles with her budding emotions in a world infested by zombies.
Franco (James’ brother, recently seen in FRIGHT NIGHT, pictured right) is playing “Perry Kelvin, Palmer’s boyfriend, who gets over his initial fear of zombies and helps leads the human resistance.”
Meanwhile, Hardrict (BATTLE: LOS ANGELES) will play “Kevin, one of Palmer’s dorky friends who serves as Malkovich’s right-hand man. He’s a member of a enclave of humans who have enclosed themselves within a walled city known as the Green Zone.”
Sounds like a solid crew! Now here’s the synopsis for this shindig:
R is a young man with an existential crisis–he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, noidentity, and no pulse, but he has dreams.
After experiencing a teenage boy’s memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and stragely sweet relationship with the victim’s human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the otherwise dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her will transform not only R, but his fellow Dead, and perhaps their whole lifeless world.
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