EXCLUSIVE: The Revenants , a Belfast-set horror-comedy comic, is set for the TV treatment.

Paula Crickard’s UK-based production outfit Atelier 11 has optioned the IP, which follows to Northern Irish brothers battling zombies, curses and personal baggage, all while trying to keep their own comic book shop afloat.

Atelier 11 is working with the comic’s creators, the Flanagan family, to create a series with a “distinctly Northern Irish tone” that includes the IP’s “raw energy, humour, horror and authenticity,” the company noted.

The Revenants was created by Daniel Flanagan in 2015, and is published through the cult independent comic book store his family runs in Belfast, Comic Book Guys. It is set in a version of the Northern Ireland capital that has been overrun by the undead, wit

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