Off-Broadway Musical ZOMBIE PROM Lurching Toward the Big Screen?

Variety reports that the off-Broadway musical ZOMBIE PROM could be lurching toward the big screen soon.

Michael J. Roth and Steve Longi have secured the film and TV rights to the comedy, and the film adaptation will directed by Vince Marcello from a script by Marcello and Mark Landry. Marcello and Landry, along with Robert Horn, recently wrote Disney's TEEN BEACH MOVIE and are working on the sequel.

John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe's ZOMBIE PROM opened off-Broadway in 1996 and spawned a short film version - also helmed by Marcello - in 2006, featuring drag queen RuPaul.

The story centers on "a forbidden romance between the rebellious bad boy Jonny and the good girl Toffee. After falling into a nuclear reactor, Jonny returns to his love as a zombie."

Dempsey & Rowe's other works include THE FIX and the stage adaptation of John Updike's THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK; both, produced in the UK by Cameron Mackintosh, earned the duo Olivier nominations in the '90s. Dempsey also co-wrote the book & lyrics for the stage version of the movie SAVED!, while Rowe penned the score for THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE.