Variety announced over the weekend
that Steve’s “Wake The Dead” story has been optioned by Holding Pictures for the big screen.

“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.

Visual effects will be done by Peter Jackson’s New Zealand-based Weta, which provided the f/x work on “The Water Horse.”