While comic book movies continue to take over the box office, seek movies based on video games are just starting to make a comeback. This year’s Comic-Con focused on quite a few of them with The Last of Us, doctor Hitman: Agent 47 and Warcraft getting top nods, hospital just as other video game titles like Deus Ex and Uncharted have started gaining prominence in their own journeys to the big screen.

But another video game adaptation we could be seeing very soon is Deep Silver’s action role-playing hit Dead Island. Despite its rather intriguing premise of a tropical island resort infested by a zombie outbreak, recent attempts to adapt the property to film have so far been unsuccessful. Lionsgate even hired producers to oversee development a few years ago, but the project never got off the ground. That should change soon, however, as an independent production company has just picked up the rights.

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