


States Alcon Entertainment co-founders Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, “Maberry has crafted a gripping, fast paced universe with a distinctive balance of YA and broad appeal that we are eager and excited to explore. When Benny grudgingly joins his brother Tom as an apprentice zombie hunter, his expectations are upended as he instead discovers what it means to be human. Rot & Ruin follows Benny Imura as he navigates a post-apocalyptic zombie-infected America in which teenagers are forced to find labor or face starvation. And not everyone in Benny’s small band of travelers will survive….Alcon Entertainment has acquired film and TV rights to young adult zombie fiction series Rot & Ruin from New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry.Īlcon purchased all five installments of Simon & Schuster’s Rot & Ruin and plans to develop the first book for the big screen. In the great Rot & Ruin, everything wants to kill you.

Worst of all…could the evil Charlie Pink-eye still be alive? Lilah the Lost Girl and Benny’s best friend Lou Chong are going with them.īut before they even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town, and as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers, and the horrors of Gameland-where teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in the zombie pits. Now, after months of rigorous training with Benny’s zombie-hunter brother Tom, Benny and Nix are ready to leave their home forever and search for a better future. It’s also been six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin.
