Bloody-Disgusting.Com recycles some news gleaned from Comic Book Resources: Brandon Routh (star of SUPERMAN RETURNS) has signed to play Dylan Dog in DEAD OF NIGHT, an adaptation of the Italian “Dylan Dog” graphic novels by Tizlano Sclavi:
David Ellis, (Final Destination 2, Snakes on a Plane) is attached to helm from a screenplay by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly. Dylan Dog is a penniless nightmare investigator who defies the whole preceding horror tradition with a vein of surrealism and an anti-bourgeois rhetoric. The true monsters in many of these stories are human beings.
Hopefully, this will turn out better for Routh than CEMETERY MAN did for Rupert Everett. That 1994 adaptation of the Sclavi’s Delamorte Dellamore has long since disappeared from Everett’s resume (although, strangely enough, it is highly regarded in some cult cirlces).