MTV got scoop on an upcoming horror film, at their splash pageDirectorJohn Moore (The Omen remake) has started on a new film titled ‘Virulents’, and he is looking to cast Mark Wahlberg as the lead character. Read on to see what Moore had to say about the project.

[The story] revolves around a ragtag group of soldiers who search for a lost patrol in Afghanistan. The soldiers, some from an American military unit, some from an Indian military unit, stumble into a nest of vampire zombies.

The world’s pretty serious right now, and there’s an ironic lightness in “Virulents”… There’s a touch of macabre ridiculousness to it. I think we’ve seen a lot of attempts to make serious movies about serious things, and it strikes me that we might be a little more artful about how we make a point [these days].