iZombie Started Filming Yesterday

The CW's Vertigo adaptation iZombie began filming yesterday, according to showrunner Rob Thomas. The announcement came in an e-mail update to backers of the Thomas-directed Veronica Mars movie. "They want a new, sort of cool lead for The CW," Thomas recently said of the project. "So they are asking me to write it 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 coroner's office so there's a case-of-the-week where she gets snippets of memories of the deceased and tries to solve the crime." "I've read the script for the pilot, and it seems like it will make for good television," the comic's co-creator Chris Roberson said in a recent Reddit AMA. "The core concept is the same as our comic, but they've used it as the basis for a new character and situation. I very much look forward to seeing how it turns out!" The show will star Rose McIver as Olivia "Liv" Moore, a med student who eats brains in order to keep from losing herself and becoming a full-blown zombie; when she does so, though, she takes on the memories of the deceased. She stars with Robert Buckley, Malcolm Goodwin, Alexandra Krosney and David Anders.