Lionsgate Picks Up ‘Maggie,’ A Film Full of Zombies, Fatherly Love, and Schwarzenegger

Per Joblo, Lionsgate has picked up the zombie anti-thriller Maggie. Taking a peak at the synopsis, the film looks to take a microscope to something usually only given a few quick seconds in zombie and infection flicks: the transformation.

A young woman becomes infected – likely by bite, but perhaps by blood spray or a bad burger. Her father takes her home to be with her family – this is clearly a slower transformation than that of some genre contributions – and we watch their final moments together. The focus is on the father and his relationship with the daughter.

Abigail Breslin, a logical choice to a play a whip-smart teen in a zombified world, is the daughter. The father is Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The equation of Schwarzenegger plus zombies would usually equal carnage and bloodshed. This is billed as a more intimate affair, though, an intimate portrayal of fatherly love in the most dire of situations. The premise is incredibly promising, though we have no word on the execution. Can the Terminator, whose IMDB since 2010 is Escape PlanThe Expendables 1-3, Sabotage, and The Last Stand pass as a doting dad in a dramatic, small-scale film?

The script was written by John Scott 3 (his only IMDB credit) and appeared on The Black List in 2011. For reference – and for fun, that list also included Django UnchainedSaving Mr. BanksBad WordsThe Pretty One… and Sex Tape. Henry Hobson, a title sequence designer, makes his feature length directorial debut. Lionsgate hopes to give the movie a theatrical run in early 2015. Screen Rant has some images from the film to peruse.

Tyler Hanan
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