Capcom’s popular zombie game is coming to the big screen in the form of a movie. Content Media is set to release Dead Rising: Watchtower over multiple digital media platforms all over the world. It was originally released on Sony’s Crackle streaming service in March this year.
Jesse Metcalfe, Meghan Ory, Virginia Madsen, Dennis Haysbert and Rob Riggle are a few names among this all-star cast that are to battle the undead hordes in this action packed adventure.
Dead Rising: Watchtower follows reporter Chase Carter, played by Jesse Matcalfe in a dangerous adventure to find a career-changing story. Carter, trying to make it big in the world of journalism, takes incredibly crucial steps up the career ladder which see him stranded among other survivors in an abandoned sports stadium in a zombie infested warzone.
The story is told from two persectives, the survivors from inside the city fighting for their life, and officials outside reporting on the outbreak. The struggles that the survivors face forces them to question what they’re willing to do to survive.
The drug, Zombrex makes an appearance as many of the survivors have the dreaded virus in their blood. They have to scavange for the zombie cure to continue to survive.
The Dead Rising videogame has sold more than 8.2 million copies worldwide.
