 Although Howard has said that Hudgens was attached to the role back in June 2009, more recent reports have stated that the movie is progressing very slowly now, with no one currently attached.On 17 March 2010 Dennis Iliadis was named as the director and MTV Films will produce the project.On November 25th 2015, Dead@17 creator Josh Howard announced that a live action adaptation of his comic is set to be released in February 2016, an official short production by POPBOOM.com, film Dead@17 Rebirth is directed by Jack Heller, starring newcomers CC Weske and Lucy Freyer.