Jon Heder, the actor who starred in "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Blades of Glory," has announced that his next project will go after an audience of nerd-friendly webheads, Reuters reports. "Woke Up Dead," whose Internet-only webisodes premiere in October 2009, is a sci-fi comedy thrill that will have Heder playing a 20-something college student who wakes up in a bathtub full of water only to find that he's turned into a zombie. "It plays with the conventions of the zombie-horror genre," Heder said. "Drex doesn't believe he's a zombie, but his friends start to realize he may be as he has no heart rate, all his vital signs are gone, and he has this hunger for brains."
The scripted online series, created by John Fascano, is being produced by Electric Farm, with Heder as a co-producer. The show marks Heder’s strut into the world of online programming.
"Woke Up Dead" was developed with Heder in mind as the lead. It will comprise 50 three-minute episodes for online and mobile distribution in the United States. (Does that mean those of us living outside the United States will not be able to watch the program or benefit the program's sponsors?)
The project will combines live-action with limited CGI elements, is a seemingly superb springboard for Electric Farm. The series is being made outside of a deal Stan Rogow, Brent Friedman and Jeff Sagansky’s Electric Farm signed with NBC Universal, which gives the conglomerate domestic rights to the company’s upcoming Internet sci-fi series "Gemini Division," starring Rosario Dawson. Sony Pictures TV International co-produces and internationally distributes "Gemini Division," (which features some elaborate 3-D art) as well as Electric Farm’s first online drama, "Afterworld," a 2.5-D-animated series, on mobile, broadband and traditional television.
Rogow said that "Woke Up Dead" was developed with Heder in mind for the lead. “He will be terrific,” he continued, “he’d always wanted to play a zombie.” "Woke Up Dead" is currently in pre-production and set to be released later this year.
This item taken from Collider.com
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