The star of "Superman Returns" will also helm the leading role in "Dead of Night".
"Dead Of Night" follows private investigators Derek Donovan and Marcus Adams as they discover that the dead, Some good, Some bad live among us here on earth.
They are drawn into the world of the walking dead especially when Marcus himself becomes a zombie.
Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) will play the lead role in "Dead of Night", which is based on SAF Comics' best-selling horror comic book series "Dylan Dog," created by Tiziano Sclavi and first published in Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore.
The movie will be directed by David R. Ellis, who started his career as a stuntman and in recent years has directed such movies as "Final Destination 2", "Cellular" and the hit, "Snakes on a Plane". The screenplay was written by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly.
Principal photography is planned to start soon on locations in Connecticut. Dylan Dog's graphic representation was inspired by English actor Rupert Everett. Dylan Dog is a penniless nightmare investigator who defies the whole preceding horror tradition with a vein of surrealism and an anti-bourgeois rhetoric. The true monsters in many of these stories are human beings.
The film is expected to hit theatres sometime in 2008.