Sullivan's Sluggers, the Kickstarter-funded graphic novel by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe described as "Major League meets Zombieland and then some,” is heading toward the big screen.

Heat Vision reports that Todd Garner of Broken Road Productions is partnering with Adam Herz and Joshua Shader of Terra Firma Films to produce the adaptation. Tom and Tim Mullen have been hired to write the script.

The upcoming 200-page graphic novel centers on coach Casey Sullivan and his has-been minor league Sluggers, who are invited to play a baseball game in a cursed small town. After the seventh-inning stretch, the sun goes down and the dysfunctional players find themselves fighting for their lives against flesh-eating monsters.

"Casey Sullivan is the hard-partying manager of the Sluggers," Smith said in a 2010 interview of Comic Book Resources, when Sullivan's Sluggers was originally announced through Image Comics.. "He thinks he's a good coach because he knows his players have a great time. But in reality, he's just a washed up major leaguer hiding from his past, when he 'Bucknered' a World Series game. He's a glorified cruise director who cares more about developing drinking buddies than baseball players. Secretly, though, he wants to redeem himself - and a bizarre twist of fate gives him the unlikely opportunity to do so."

According to Heat Vision, the producers were drawn to Sullivan's Sluggers because of its mix of humor and horror.

The graphic novel was originally announced through Image Comics in 2010, but was moved in mid-May to Kickstarter, where the creators raised more than six times their $6,000 goal within the first five days. To date, $48,916 has been pledged toward the book.

Smith is the Eisner and Harvey award-winning writer of The Amazing Joy Buzzards, Gladstone's School for World Conquerors and The New Brighton Archeological Society. Stokoe is the Eisner-nominated creator of Orc Stain and the upcoming Godzilla: Half-Century War.