Max Brooks and Avatar Press Announce Legendary Original Television Series for Extinction Parade

Max Brooks and Avatar Press have announced Legendary Television and Digital optioned the New York Times Bestselling Author Brooks’ Extinction Parade as an original property for development as a new television series.  Brooks is closely tied to the development of the project and will be writing the Pilot episode.  

“I only brought the idea to one company, Legendary, because they do the kind of quality work of which any writer would be proud." stated Brooks. “Max Brooks is a visionary with an incredible ability to tell stories that deliver a fresh approach to the horrors that haunt our nightmares.  His work on Extinction Parade has been a stunningly rich tapestry of cultures in decline and a biting indictment of the perils of privilege.  It will make the perfect television series to appeal to fans who have until now settled for thinly veiled soap operas parading as horror,” said William Christensen, Publisher of Avatar Press.

 

Legendary is the studio behind recent blockbuster film 300: Rise of an Empire and the upcoming release of Godzilla this spring.  Their slate of film projects has firmly targeted the pop culture and comic book reading community and provided some of the best blockbuster genre movies ever created.  They bring the ideal approach to adapting a hit property like Extinction Parade into a successful television series.

Brooks is known for his meticulously researched zombie fiction and is the author of the bestselling novels World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide.  Recently World War Z was adapted into one of the biggest theatrical horror releases of 2013 and now Extinction Parade is set to follow suit as an upcoming television series.

“While the comic series from Avatar continues, I am thrilled to be working with Legendary to develop Extinction Parade into an innovative new series for television,” stated Brooks.

 

As these two fan favorite undead species prepare to make their television debut under the direction of Brooks’ definitive vision joining programs like The Walking Dead and Hannibal as the best horror on television, the first chapter of the Extinction Parade graphic novel series is set to premiere this coming July.  The trade paperback collection offers a unique opportunity to step into the world of zombies vs vampires and experience a terrifying new chapter in horror.  

Extinction Parade, a softcover graphic novel with color interiors is available for preorder from your favorite comic book retailer, Amazon, and B&N, 6.5″ x 9.5″, 160 pages is on sale 7/1/14.    – ISBN 978-1-59291-234-6    $19.99 (US)

About Max Brooks is a critically acclaimed author most widely recognized for his New York Times bestselling novels World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide.  World War Z was adapted into a blockbuster theatrical release in 2013 and has an upcoming sequel in development.  His graphic novel, The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, is also a New York Times bestseller.

Max Brooks Announces Extinction Parade: War from Avatar Press

New York Times Bestselling Author Max Brooks, unleashes the next exciting chapter of his Zombies vs. Vampires comic book series Extinction Parade: War in July.  Brooks has been a driving force behind the resurgence in zombie interest over the last decade with his seminal prose works The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z.  Fans have flocked to his novels and panel presentations to get the latest undead survival techniques from the charismatic master scholar.

 

Avatar Press is pleased to announce this horrifying continuation of Brooks’ groundbreaking series chronicling the breaking point for vampires as the privileged aristocratic race of immortals is finally forced to face a critical realization – that the human race won’t solve the zombie plague without their aid.  And when these powerful undead creatures are finally mobilized the violent clash of Vampires and Zombies is summed up best in the new chapter’s subtitle:  War.

   

Brooks explains the philosophy behind exposing the weaknesses of the vampire race in Extinction Parade: War, “Every individual human being knows life is hard. Sooner or later adversity’s gonna come knocking. But if you’re a vampire you’ve had a thousand years of comfortable joy. You’re not ready! You don’t have those survival skills.”

Extinction Parade: War #1 is a super-sized July shipping comic book that continues the story of Extinction Parade following issue #5.  War #1 includes the previously solicited single issue comics content of Extinction Parade #6 & #7 which have been cancelled.  Fans who want to step into the terrifying world of Max Brooks’ Extinction Parade can do so with the electrifying first chapter of the story in the Extinction Parade Trade Paperback Collection also shipping in July and available for pre-order it now from your favorite retailer! Available at comic shops and retailers including Amazon.com and BN.com   

   

About Extinction Parade:

In a world where the zombie plague has put the human race on the endangered species list, another predatory undead species realizes that to stand by idly means the end of their food supply.  Vastly outnumbered by the zombie hordes, vampires descend into all-out subdead war, with humanity caught in the crossfire.  This series further examines Brooks’ fascination with the lethal races of the undead and brings his unique voice to comics at a time when horror fiction is at an all-time high in popularity.   

Extinction Parade, a softcover graphic novel with color interiors, 6.5″ x 9.5″, 160 pages.

– ISBN 978-1-59291-234-6

– $19.99 (US)

Max Brooks is a critically acclaimed author most widely recognized for his New York Times bestselling novels World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide.  World War Z was adapted into a blockbuster theatrical release in 2013 and has an upcoming sequel in development.  His graphic novel, The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, is also a New York Times bestseller.