Holding Pictures has acquired rights to Steve Niles' graphic novel "
Wake the Dead" and set James V. Hart to write the script and Jay Russell to direct.
"The idea is to make a classic horror film, and what I liked was the combination of Jay, in a genre he's wanted to experiment in for some time, with Jim, who is particularly skilled at this kind of voice, and with a world created by Steve, who has become a classic in the graphic novel world," Lyons said.