According to Lollipop Chainsaw's lead writer James Gunn, Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming game about a cheerleader ridding her high school of zombies with a chainsaw has some silver-screen potential. The quirky and violent concept doesn't exactly seem like mainstream movie material, but Gunn asserts that publisher Warner Bros. approached him about just such a cross-over project during the game's early development stages.

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Grasshopper Interactive's odd cheerleading/zombie-killing game will be coming this summer, Warner Bros announced at a GDC party last night. In fact, it will be available on June 12.

Lollipop Chainsaw is the latest game from Goichi Suda (Suda 51). As with most other Grasshopper games, the soundtrack is being handled by Akira Yamaoka. Dawn of the Dead's James Gunn is also penning the over-the-top script.

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