E4 is developing a zombie series based on the unreleased feature film I Spit On Your Rave, TVWise can reveal. The channel has put a six-part, hour-long series into development.
The project is being re-developed from a 2009 feature, a co-production between Film4 and Warp Films, that was shot at that year’s Big Chill Festival but never released. For the television version, E4 has commissioned six scripts from the film’s writer and director Chris Boyle, and the plan is to fold in as much of the original 2009 footage as possible.
A mockumentary set in 2018, the story takes place six years after a virus released at the 2012 Olympics triggers a zombie outbreak that wipes out most of humanity. With no humans left to feed on, the undead are at a loose end, so they stage the first post-apocalyptic music festival, curated by zombies. The original shoot doubled as a record attempt, gathering thousands of costumed festival-goers to break the Guinness World Record for the most zombies caught on camera.
Warp Films, which made the original film, would produce the series should it be picked up. The 2009 shoot featured Tom Meeten and Noel Fielding, though it is not yet clear whether either would return.