iZOMBIE's Rob Thomas Says Series Won't Stick That Close To The Comics

"They want a new, sort of cool, female lead on The CW. They want something in the vein of Buffy or Veronica Mars. So they are asking me to write [iZombie] in the tone that I normally write. It will not be zombie apocalypse show, it will be fun, cool, smart, funny single-female lead who happens to be a zombie. She has to eat brains in order to survive. We're not sticking that close to the comics, the thing we're taking from the comic is this mid-20s female zombie who eats brains and gets the memories of the dead. But we put her in a coroners office so there's a case of the week, each week where she gets snippets of memories of the deceased and tries to solve the crime."

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