Lionsgate has landed the feature spec Memetic from Mattson Tomlin, who co-wrote The Batman script with director Matt Reeves. Based on the Boom! Studios graphic novel of the same name by James Tynio…
, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Josh Fagen through their deal with the studio. That trio will produce with Boom! Studios’ Ross Richie and Stephen Christy. Fagen and Adam Yoelin will be exec producers., all hell breaks loose when a mysterious meme goes viral on a college campus, making anyone who sees it turn obsessive and violent. As the meme spreads and grows out of control, a ragtag group of students must risk everything in order to survive the viral outbreak and try to stop it.
Point Grey is repped by UTA and Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson; Boom! Studios is UTA and Matt Saver. Tomlin is Grandview and Goodman Schenkman & Brecheen. Meredith Wieck is overseeing for Lionsgate. Dan Freedman oversaw business affairs on behalf of the studio.
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