Scott Derrickson Adapting Horror Novel Highway of Bones for Movie

Director Scott Derrickson and author C. Robert Cargill—aka, the dream group behind Doctor Strange and The Black Cellphone—are collaborating once more. Their subsequent challenge? An adaption of Christopher Golden’s Highway of Bones.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, the duo are engaged on the movie for Sony’s Display screen Gems label. It’ll be the primary film underneath the manufacturing banner Crooked Freeway, and can proceed their ongoing partnership. Golden, who wrote the script for 2024’s Hellboy: The Crooked Man, will govt produce the movie.

Launched in 2022, Highway of Bones is in regards to the titular Siberian freeway which stretches 1,200 miles and has -60 diploma temperatures. Over 80 gulags had been created alongside its path throughout Stalin’s regime, making it the proper topic for documentary producer Felix “Teig” Teigland. Throughout his travels together with his digicam operator and an area information, Teig learns of the Highway’s tradition and its numerous folks till they attain Oymyakon, the “coldest settlement on Earth.” The one particular person there’s a younger lady, and issues get even weirder when a shaman instructions forest spirits to hunt the trio down.

Sony hasn’t set a launch date for Highway of Bones, and there’s at present no casting connected. Till extra data surfaces, anybody wanting a horror repair from Derrickson and Cargill can flip to The Gorge (which Cargill produced, however didn’t write) and a Black Phone sequel releasing on October 17.

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