Awakening

AMC’s The Walking Dead showed us that zombies can be scary, but Deadline brings word the CW may soon be trying to show that the rotting brain-eaters can also be sexy. Umm… rotting? Brain-eaters? Sexy? For some really strange reason, that combo just doesn’t work for me.

The CW hasn’t gone so far as to actually announce a pilot being made, but they have purchased a spec script for Awakening, a zombie drama “which centers on two sisters who come of age and face off against one another amidst the beginning of a zombie uprising.”

There haven’t been any other details released about the potential show so I honestly don’t know if they’re going to actually try and make zombies sexy but it is the CW after all. Will they go for straight horror? Doubt it, and it would be stupid to compete in that area against AMC’s hit, even though it won’t be back until October… dammit. At least we’ll be able to enjoy the show and all the cool extras on Blu-Ray and DVD in March.

Awakening will be produced by Warner Brothers TV and Reveille, with William Laurin, Glenn Davis, Howard T. Owens, Carolyn Bernstein and Todd Cohen on-board as executive producers.

I guess it’s true that zombies really are contagious, and the epidemic is spreading. In addition to the CW’s project, NBC is also looking to cash in on the zombie craze with the currently-in-development Zombies vs. Vampires.

Lock your doors. It looks like there will be lots of zombies prowling around pretty soon.

Incidentally, the pic isn’t from either Zombies vs. Vampires or Awakening. It’s from a ’06 movie called Fido; I just thought it fit the theme of sexy zombies perfectly...