Dead of Night is starting to sound like a geek’s daydream on legs. With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007) director on board and Mr. New Superman himself, Brandon Routh in the lead, at this point it’s a comic industry inside job. Munroe talks production, monsters and Hellboy II.

In case you haven’t already heard, Dead of Night is the film adaptation of the Dylan Dog comic books. Dylan Dog is a comic book about a Ghostbuster-type private eye who investigates nightmares in London. He specializes in monsters and the paranormal but is often caught up in issues of a more human texture. The comic book said to be a commentary on the monstrosity of human nature.

Seen Constantine? Read all of BPRD? Munroe is not worried. He knows that Dylan Dog sounds cliché but he still has faith that the character is a fresh take on an already explored subject: "It's really cool because the curse and the blessing of Dylan Dog is that it's all very familiar territory. I still maintain it's presented in such a fresh way. In the same way you think you've seen every alien movie, and then Men in Black comes along and you realize you never looked at it from that film's point of view. Dylan Dog does that well.”. With Dylan Dog investigating the likes of vampires, werewolves and monsters, it might just be helpful that our society already has a working knowledge of these types of bad guys.

And, yes, he’s got Monsters. Munroe tells ShockTillYouDrop.com that “We've got werewolves, zombies and vampires - and a few sub-categories of those. [Dylan Dog’s] world is everything and the kitchen sink so with this one we don't have anything quite as broad as, say, Hellboy II where you go to the [Troll Market] with different creatures, but here it's a little bit more classic for [Dead of Night].”

When asked if this film is just an origin story, Munroe responds: "If this was the only Dylan Dog movie to ever hit the market, I'd be bummed but I'd be satisfied that it has a definitive beginning middle and end. It's an origin story to the audience in the sense that it's the first time you get to see him. What I was attracted to was that it's an origin story without every showing him being recruited into this whole world. When we meet Dylan at the beginning of this movie, he's at the lowest point of his life. He's already left that life he had in the comic books. And the whole movie is about him getting back up on the horse. So, as an audience member you're introduced to all of these things. You get to see how much of a bad-ass he is, not because he's stepping through to prove it but because he's done it before in another life. It's a next step for him." The director is already talking sequel. He refers to Dead of Night as “the first movie,” and claims that “in the second [film] you go a bit deeper.”

So where is production at? Where are these alleged monsters and when are we going to get to see Brandon Routh in that red shirt? "We're coming up with a cast list and talking to a few actors. We've sent the script off to get feedback and gauge interest. The good thing is that Josh [Oppenheimer] and Tom[as Dean Donnelly] wrote such a good script, it just really attracts people, so I think within a month we're going to start releasing names of who's coming aboard." Stay tuned!