Announced over at Deadline, it looks like Chris Roberson and Mike Allred’s completed Vertigo series is heading to the CW under the helm of Rob Thomas. No, the other Rob Thomas. The Veronica Mars/Party Down Rob Thomas, not the Matchbox 20 one (that would be interesting though, right?) Re-uniting with his co-writer from Veronica Mars Diane Ruggiero, “iZombie” is the latest comic property coming out of DC (or more specifically, Vertigo) that Warner Brothers TV is working an adaptation towards, alongside the Flash and Hourman also for the CW.
It’ll make an interesting TV show, to say the least. A relatively humorous comic starring a formerly dead girl named Gwendolyn Price who only survives her afterlife by eating brains once a month, the book featured an incredibly diverse cast of characters, both in terms of race, ethnicity and sexuality, and wound up going a crazy Lovecraftian epic route at the end before it was all over. It was a fun book, and it can certainly translate to a CW-appropriate show quite easily.
But, interestingly enough, Deadline actually describes the book as a “supernatural crime procedural,” which isn’t exactly what the book was. Like, at all. In fact, it actually sounds like a supernatural zombie version of Veronica Mars, as Deadline further details the show as:
…a med student-turned-zombie who takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity. But with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories, and with the help of her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she solves homicide cases in order to quiet the disturbing voices in her head.
So it seems iZombie the show will not particularly be “iZombie” the book, after the Veronica Mars Kickstarter made nearly three times its initial goal, it’s clear that in Rob Thomas we trust. How far we’ve come.
