Isabela Merced Set to Star in a New Film Adaptation of Sega Zombie Franchise The House of the Dead

Video crippled adaptations are each the rage these days — truthful wherefore not adhd different chill 1 to the list? The Last of Us and Alien: Romulus prima Isabela Merced is acceptable to prima successful an upcoming movie adaptation of the deed Sega franchise The House of the Dead.

The adaptation was antecedently announced with Paul W.S. Anderson astatine the helm, which is decidedly a bully motion for immoderate video crippled adaptation. Anderson is liable for the archetypal Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil films, arsenic good arsenic the fourth, fifth, and sixth installments successful the Resident Evil franchise — truthful it makes a batch of consciousness that helium would privation to delve into the 1997 crippled and bring it to beingness connected screen.

“The House of the Dead is simply a crippled I person loved for galore years, and I’m beyond thrilled to beryllium bringing this to the large surface with specified an breathtaking endowment arsenic Isabela astatine its heart,” Anderson said successful a statement. “We envisage this arsenic the commencement of a tentpole franchise which tin research the affluent satellite and lore that Sega has created implicit a full bid of films.”

Isabela Merced. Image credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images.

The House of the Dead is peculiarly noteworthy arsenic a fearfulness shooter crippled due to the fact that of 1 peculiar detail: it fundamentally pioneered the conception of zombies moving accelerated successful video games, which evidently continued to animate different games and films alike implicit the years.

There are nary nonstop details connected Merced’s quality conscionable yet, but considering players would instrumentality connected the relation of AMS agents, employees of an bureau that handles world-ending conspiracies, it appears she mightiness beryllium playing 1 of those folks. That said, clip volition tell.

Anderson is besides producing this “fresh take” connected the bid alongside Sega exec and shaper Toru Nakahara, and Dmitri M. Johnson, Michael Lawrence Goldberg, and Timothy I. Stevenson of Story Kitchen. Jeremy Bolt, 1 of the producers connected Anderson’s archetypal Resident Evil film, volition besides produce, with Merced herself serving arsenic an enforcement producer. The task is acceptable to spell up for planetary merchantability astatine the upcoming European Film Market.

“Working with Isabela is simply a thrilling accidental arsenic she embodies the heroine quality perfectly, bringing dynamic vigor to the production,” Nakahara besides noted successful a statement. “We’re dedicated to crafting a visually striking and immersive acquisition by introducing compelling actors and terrifying creatures that volition bring the House of the Dead beingness to beingness connected the large screen. With our heavy knowing of video crippled adaptations, we’re anxious to present an electrifying cinematic travel for the franchise’s fans.”

Image credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.