Days Gone, Sony’s zombie survival-on-a-motorbike sport, is getting a film adaptation. Deadline report that Sony PlayStation Productions is creating the undertaking with Sheldon Turner hooked up as author and Outlander’s Sam Heughan hooked up to star.

Days Gone is ready in a post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest and stars outlaw-turned-wife-guy Deacon St. John as he journeys to find whether or not his spouse Sarah, beforehand presumed lifeless, is definitely alive. As a sport, it was praised for a few of its techniques, unfavourably in comparison with Sony’s different post-apoc story The Last Of Us, and gently mocked for its story. We thought it was finest whenever you made the bike invisible.

Sony PlayStation Productions are shifting ahead with creating the undertaking within the wake of their first movie adaptation, Uncharted, which was launched in cinemas earlier this yr. Uncharted, which stars Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, made near $402m worldwide (round £341m). (Despite being extraordinarily mediocre, sez I.)

Screenwriter Sheldon Turner’s earlier credit embrace Adam Sandler American soccer movie The Longest Yard, a story-by credit score on X-Men: First Class, and he was nominated for an Academy Award for co-adapting the screenplay for George Clooney film Up In The Air. The Deadline story says the Days Gone adaptation will probably be a “love ballad to motorbike films”.

It’s price noting that these types of bulletins don’t imply {that a} movie will certainly occur. A manufacturing home “creating” a movie implies that they’ve employed somebody to write down a script, and initiatives can undergo a number of scripts, writers and premutations over years and by no means attain the stage of filming. The Uncharted film entered improvement in 2008, 14 years earlier than it was finally launched, at which level Tom Holland was 12 years outdated.