Film + TV

Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync team for "zombie western futuristic horror movie"

by Jesse Locke

If Dead 7 sounds like the name of a fictional reanimated boy band, that’s because it is that, exactly. Members of the 1990s pin-ups Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync are now joining forces on screen as a “ragtag band of gunslingers” in a post-apocalyptic battle against the undead.

The forthcoming film, written by and starring Nick Carter, will also feature his BSB bandmates Howie Dorough and A.J. McClean along with ‘N Sync’s Joey Fatone, who has previously crossed over into acting in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Hannah Montana, and The Eric Andre Show. “I get to be the drunk,” Fatone told Rolling Stone. “Typecast!”

Carter’s qualifications for this project include a 2000 Backstreet Boys superhero comic book written with Stan Lee, along with his sexy monster mugging in the “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” video. “It’s a zombie western futuristic horror movie,” Carter explained in the same RS piece. “My character is still being worked out right now, but I’m a good guy that’s going to help save the day.”

Dead 7 (still a tentative title) will be produced by The Asylum, the team behind “mockbusters” Sharknado and Transmorphers. A quick glimpse at their iMDB page proves they’re either striking while the iron’s hot or flogging a dead fish, with 2015 rounded out by Megashark vs. Kolossus, 3 Headed Shark Attack, and Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!