After penning the popular Swedish vampire novel Let the Right One In which spawned both a foreign and American adaptation, it looks like another horror novel from author John Ajvide Lindqvist might be heading to the big screen. In the same 24 Frames article talking about Universal's acquisition of the remake rights for The Troll Hunter and the recent Scandinavian influence on the industry, it's also revealed that Lindqvist's novel Handling the Undead will soon be shopped around to U.S. studios to strike a film deal. Though the prospect of another unique story in the zombie category is enticing, Frank Darabont may have already done that.
If you're not familiar with the book that was published back in 2005 and translated into English just last year, here's the official synopsis:
Stockholm is overtaken by the undead after a period of strange weather, and the uprising has surprising consequences for several people, ...
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