Jake Gyllenhaal will star in Oblivion Song, a feature film adaptation of the comic book series from The Walking Dead writer Robert Kirkman and artist Lorenzo De Felici. New Republic Pictures optioned the comic, and Kirkman and Gyllenhaal will both serve as producers on the movie. Kirkman’s titles have spawned franchises such as AMC’s The Walking Dead and its spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead. The Walking Dead also is being developed into movies, with Andrew Lincoln set to reprise his role as Rick Grimes. His Outcast books landed a series at Cinemax, Invincible is being developed into a R-rated animated series and a separate live-action movie from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and has spawned several video games based on The Walking Dead and Thief of Thieves. The Oblivion Song movie is set to be a sci-fi drama on a script penned by Sean O’Keefe (Spenser Confidential).
