{"id":4888,"date":"2012-07-18T17:20:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2012-07-18T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:20:01","slug":"comic-con-last-blood-movie-secures-co-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/comic-con-last-blood-movie-secures-co-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con &#8212; Last Blood Movie Secures Co-Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Producer Rick Benattar (Reel Steel, Ironclad) and newly formed production and financing company Cascade FilmWorks have signed on to co-finance the live-action feature adaptation of the popular webcomic Last Blood. Debuting as an online comic in 2006, Last Blood has attracted more than 20 million readers worldwide, the producers said. It takes place in a future in which vampires battle zombies to protect the last surviving humans and preserve their supply of fresh blood. Mutant Chronicles helmer Simon Hunter is directing the web-to-feature film, as was announced at last year\u2019s Comic-Con. International sales will be handled by Palatin Media\u2019s Bernd Schl\u00f6tterer. The picture is slated to shoot in November, with casting now underway. The other co-financers are Red Giant Entertainment producers Aimee Schoof and Isen Robbins. Keenspot\u2019s Chris Crosby and Bobby Crosby (the creators of Last Blood) and Ironclad producer Christian Arnold-Beutel are also producing.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rg_hi\" class=\"rg_hi uh_hi\" style=\"width: 180px; height: 279px;\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRrlSupXY6GoW1_AiJ30_0piZdp4TwLYTwMPFM37KA_mwuilFfZ\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"279\" data-width=\"180\" data-height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To listen to past interviews we had with Bobby Crosby, please click <a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?page_id=113\">here for our 2009 interview<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?page_id=203\">here for our 2010 interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/07\/comic-con-last-blood-movie-secures-co-financing\/\">Comic-Con &#8212; Last Blood Movie Secures Co-Financing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Producer Rick Benattar (Reel Steel, Ironclad) and newly formed production and financing company Cascade FilmWorks have signed on to co-finance the live-action feature adaptation of the popular webcomic Last Blood. Debuting as an online comic in 2006, Last Blood has attracted more than 20 million readers worldwide, the producers said. It takes place in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-1gQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5217,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/comicbook-bloodstrike-heads-to-bigscreen-entertainment-news-exclusive-media-variety\/","url_meta":{"origin":4888,"position":0},"title":"Comicbook &#8216;Bloodstrike&#8217; heads to bigscreen &#8211; Entertainment News, EXCLUSIVE, Media &#8211; Variety","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"August 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The vampire soldiers of \"Bloodstrike\" are heading for the big screen, with the comic book property set up with Adi Shankar's 1984 Private Defense Contractors. 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