Virulents is a comic from Virgin Comics, a fast growing arm of the Virgin empire, and has just been bought by New Regency and to be adapted to film by John Cox and directed by John Moore.

The story is about a group of soldiers who are searching for a lost patrol in Afghanistan, but instead of the patrol they find a “nest” of vampire zombies held out in the cavernous mountains.

I think the term at that point would be “air strike”. John Moore directed The Omen and Flight of the Phoenix remakes and so you can judge on that basis how the film might look and feel.

Variety have the news. The story certainly sounds interesting and would have a topical twist as well as a great location, kind of like 30 Days of Night where they've taken a traditional horror creature and dropped them into a modern and unvisited location.