{"id":108531,"date":"2019-06-03T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=108531"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:00:53","slug":"wesley-snipes-to-star-in-zombie-thriller-outbreak-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/wesley-snipes-to-star-in-zombie-thriller-outbreak-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Snipes to star in zombie thriller Outbreak Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Blade <\/strong><\/em>star\u00a0Wesley Snipes will soon be back slaying the undead, but in a slightly different manner.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/wesley-snipes-star-produce-zombie-thriller-outbreak-z-1214764\">THR<\/a>, the actor has joined upcoming zombie action thriller <em><strong>Outbreak Z<\/strong><\/em>. He will both star in the film and serve as an executive producer.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows &#8220;two SWAT officers on a desperate hunt through an overrun college campus in search of a man who holds a vaccine to a zombie virus.&#8221; Snipes is set to play one of the SWAT officers.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Outbreak Z\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is being directed by Chris Brewster, who served as a fight choreographer and stunt performer on Netflix&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Daredevil<\/strong><\/em>, so we can probably expect the film to be packed with impressive action sequences. <em><strong>Outbreak Z<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0will be Brewster&#8217;s directorial debut. Hamid Torabpur, Clint Narramore and Andrew Kightlinger wrote the script.<\/p>\n<p>The project is coming from Winter State Entertainment, with Peter Wise on board as a producer, and Hamid and Camille Torabpour, Dr Mark Smith and Patrick Werksma executive producing alongside Snipes.\u00a0<em><strong>The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em> songwriter and producer Eric Arjes is writing the score for the film.<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar, Snipes is an actor, director, producer and martial artist best known for playing Blade in the\u00a0<em><strong>Blade<\/strong><\/em> vampire slaying film trilogy written by David S Goyer. He also stars in films like\u00a0<em><strong>New Jack City<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>White Men Can&#8217;t Jump<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Demolition Man<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>Passenger 57<\/strong><\/em>, among others. He has a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and a 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Outbreak Z\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>doesn&#8217;t yet have a release date. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Snipes is set to slay zombies in upcoming action thriller Outbreak Z <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":108532,"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":[2615,3],"tags":[6506],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rexfeatures_1547202a.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108531"}],"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=108531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}