Recently showrunner Rob Thomas sat down and spoke up on why there were such major changes from the comic to the television show in ‘iZombie’
In the comic book, there are all sorts of monsters, but that HBO show True Blood was already doing the all the monsters and there’s also like a vampire/werewolf/ghost show. So I wanted to stay out of that territory.
I think what we carried over was the big idea of the comic book which is this woman in her mid-20s becomes a functioning zombie and when she eats brains she inherits the memories. Even in the comic book she tries to solve these outstanding issues of the dead and we play that in the TV series as well. What I needed was a story mechanism that allowed her to do it every week. I wanted very closed cases and working in the police morgue gave me a dead, murdered body each week which made it easier to adapt as a TV show.
I’ll be honest, and this makes no sense: I like virus-caused zombies as opposed to supernatural, curse of the pharaoh-type zombies. It’s weird that I have to believe in fake science rather than fake supernatural stuff when I write, but that’s just kind of a personal taste thing.
You can watch the full interview below!
