It’s World War V – A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising Headed to the Screen
Steve Barton
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While people are still wondering just what the hell is up with Paramount and the World War Z sequel, others are quick to capitalize on the vacancy. Case in point: Deadline is reporting that 20th Century Fox and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps made a big book acquisition for the Raymond A. Villareal novel A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising.
Levy and Dan Cohen will produce. The book just sold to Little, Brown in a four-publisher auction; it was landed by Josh Kendall at Little, Brown imprint Mulholland Books, and the first of four books will be published next year. That promises franchise potential, and Fox got the jump and made the preemptive film deal while Sony circled for Josh Bratman’s Immersive Pictures, Universal for Robert Kirkman’s Skybound, and Lionsgate for 3 Arts.
The book is most easily characterized as “World War Z with vampires.” The novel is an “oral history” of the appearance, assimilation, and ultimately epic and violent confrontation of vampires with the human race. It chronicles the rise of the vampires, who call themselves “The Gloaming,” from multiple points of view: the CDC investigator who discovers a mysterious virus; the FBI agent who forms the first Gloaming Crimes Unit; a civil rights attorney’s analysis of the Gloaming Equal Rights Act; an obsessive Vatican librarian; and even TMZ.
Stay tuned for more as we get it!
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