Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes has signed up to develop the IDW Publishing comic book Zombies vs. Robots for a feature adaptation with Sony Pictures, Deadline reports. Screenwriter J.T. Petty used the comic book as the basis for his spec script, Inherit the Earth, which was also included in the package deal for Platinum Dunes and Sony.
The story revolves around a young girl who is the last human left on Earth after a worldwide zombie outbreak. She is protected by a group of robots from the fierce zombies, who are more intelligent than most of the undead we’ve seen in the past (but then, when aren’t they these days?). Chris Ryall and Ashley Wood created the comic book series.
Bay will produce, along with Bradley Fuller and Andrew Form, David Alpert (who also works on the Walking Dead), and Rick Jacobs.