{"id":108104,"date":"2019-05-02T12:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=108104"},"modified":"2019-05-02T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T11:06:56","slug":"lionsgate-teaming-with-jonathan-levine-for-a-warm-bodies-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/lionsgate-teaming-with-jonathan-levine-for-a-warm-bodies-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionsgate teaming with Jonathan Levine for a Warm Bodies series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionsgate has signed a first-look film and TV deal with director Jonatan Levine (<em><strong>Long Shot<\/strong><\/em>), and there&#8217;s a\u00a0<em><strong>Warm Bodies <\/strong><\/em>TV\u00a0series on the way as a result.<\/p>\n<p>2013 zombie romantic comedy\u00a0<em><strong>Warm Bodies<\/strong><\/em> (which was based on the book of the same name by Isaac Marion) was directed and written by Levine, and managed to earn more than $115 million at the worldwide box office.<\/p>\n<p>Set about eight years after the zombie apocalypse, the film tells the story of R, a zombie hopeless romantic, as he gets to know a young human woman named Julie and begins to fall in love with her. It stars Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Analeigh Tipton, Cory Hardrict and John Malkovich.<\/p>\n<p>The new TV series is being produced by both Lionsgate and Levine&#8217;s new production company Megamix, and is just one of several projects currently in the works from the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group\u00a0Nathan Kahane said: &#8220;For over a decade, Lionsgate has been in business with Jonathan supporting his earliest work as a gifted writer and director and storyteller and releasing his films.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is enormously talented and his movies are unique and refreshing and never derivative. Lionsgate has always been somewhat of an unofficial home for him and Megamix also represents a homecoming for Gillian Bohrer, a highly accomplished and respected production and creative executive. So for us, this deal is an irresistible one-two punch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Levine added: &#8220;Lionsgate is the perfect home for Megamix, a studio to both my most successful and favourite moviemaking experiences.\u00a0Joe [Drake, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chairman] and Nathan have been great collaborators and friends who have supported me over the years and are as committed as Gillian and I are to nurture unique, creative and commercial visions and we couldn\u2019t be more thrilled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionsgate and Jonathan Levin are working on a TV series of zombie comedy Warm Bodies <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":108105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[2394],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/maxresdefault.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}