Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher of Double Feature Films have optioned a feature film adaptation of Paul is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion, the mash-up novel from author Alan Goldsher.

The novel tells one of the currently-popular alternate history stories where zombies and monsters and vampires and aliens are used as an added special ingredient to classic old stories or even to the lives of celebrities and historical figures. This began with Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and has gone as far as the recent announcement of the Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov collaboration on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

In Goldsher’s tale, John Lennon is turned into a zombie while still a young child in 1940 England. As time goes on, he grows into an incredibly talented musician who kills and re-animates Paul McCartney and George Harrison before adding “Drummer/Seventh Level Ninja Lord” Ringo Starr to the group, creating and amazing and talented band of (mostly) zombie musicians called The Beatles, who go set off to share their music with millions of adoring fans…some of which they eat. Eventually, however, they must face two deadly foes: 1.) Feared zombie-hunter Mick Jagger. 2.) Eight Level Ninja Lord Yoko Ono, who replaces their spiritual mentor and causes the band’s bond to falter.