"30 Days of Night" creator Steve Niles has a healthy lineup of Hollywood options on the table this year, from "Pineapple Express" director David Gordon Green ready to adapt his miniseries "Freaks of the Heartland" to a "30 Days" sequel possibly going direct-to-DVD soon. His modern-day Frankenstein story "Wake the Dead," however, is facing some snags as its character designers find themselves occupied with the "Hobbit" films.
"That one’s kind of at a standstill for now," Niles told MTV News of the effects of WETA’s extended "Hobbit" commitment. "We just didn’t manage to get it set up as much as I had hoped."
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