NEW show! iZOMBIE
For anyone still lamenting the loss of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Pushing Daisies, iZombie might just fill that hole in your heart. Inspired by Vertigo’s Eisner Awardnominated comic book of the same name, executive producers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero have adapted the source material to fit the small screen.
“What we kept from the comic book was the big idea and the premise of a woman in her twenties who is a functional zombie. She needed brains to survive and inherits the memories of the brains she ate,” Thomas tells SFX. In the series, that troubled lady is Liv Moore, played by Rose McIver.
“Because we are hopefully doing 22 episodes a year, we wanted there to be a procedural at the core. In the comic book, she is robbing graves. In the show, she works
“every brain she is eating is a murder vict im”
in a police morgue so every brain she is eating is a murder victim, so each week we get to solve a murder case.”
With horror gaining more traction on TV, Thomas says iZombie won’t go dark like some other popular shows… “On The CW, we could never out- Walking Dead The Walking Dead. We could never do the shotgun to the brain stuff they do, so we rely on wit. We want the drama to have stakes but for there to be levity. I actually think iZombie is closer to doing what Buffy The Vampire Slayer was doing. We actually reference Buffy and Warm Bodies a lot about where tonally we want to land.”