2013’s comic book turned movie RIPD flopped in theaters, but like the Deados that haunt its undead cop characters, it’s back from the dead, baby. The prequel, RIPD: Rise of the Damned, doesn’t feature Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges, but Burn Notice’s Jeffrey Donovan is standing in. Coming out for digital rental Nov. 15.
It’s not like we’re short of evidence that literally every IP that’s ever been a movie or TV show is currently on the table for a reboot, prequel, spinoff, or re-imagining. But the latest case in point is particularly surprising: Universal Pictures has revived RIPD, the comic-book-turned-movie that flopped in theaters back in 2013. On Wednesday, the studio released the first trailer for a prequel movie called RIPD: Rise of the Damned, which is coming out on home video and digital release on Nov. 15. Streaming video that appears to be the first eight minutes of the movie is also online on Universal’s website.
The original RIPD movie is a modern-day supernatural action story starring Deadpool’s Ryan Reynolds as detective Nick Walker, whose corrupt partner (Kevin Bacon) murders him, inadvertently inducting him into an afterlife law-enforcement agency called the Rest In Peace Department.
