Techland and Deep Silver’s zombie-slayer Dead Island was released just a few weeks ago and is already considered a worldwide phenomenon (despite some serious bugs). Banking on that, Lionsgate Motion Pictures Group wants to turn the game into a movie. The upcoming Dead Island film sounds like something that a lot of fans and movie buffs may enjoy.

If there’s a lesson learned from my completion of the Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and Super Mario Bros. live-action flicks, it’s that a) I can tolerate the trashiest films ever made and b) I should never hold hope that a fighter will translate into a decent, watchable flick. So when I got word that SNK [...]