When an everyday man is “tagged” by a random stranger, he returns home and makes a horrifying discovery—his body is decomposing before his eyes, his flesh is rotting, he’s not dying...he’s dead.

Now, he must make the morally challenging decision to either endure the ancient curse, or pass the plague to another.

Director John Leonetti and writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski are attached to a new 20th Century Fox production of a film based on the BOOM! graphic novel Tag, according to Deadline.

The project was in development at Universal back in the mid-aughts, but the film didn’t get made and the rights reverted to BOOM!.

That brought 20th Century Fox into the picture under its first look deal with BOOM!.

Director Leonetti has enormous cachet in Hollywood right now; his horror film Annabelle, which he made for $5 million, grossed over $255 million worldwide last year.

The graphic novel is written by Keith Giffen, with art by Kody Chamberlain and Chee.