Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, the creative minds behind Sinister and The Black Phone, are taking on another chilling tale. This time they will bring Christopher Golden’s supernatural horror novel Road of Bones to the screen for Sony’s Screen Gems.
Derrickson is set to direct, with both he and Cargill writing and producing under their Crooked Highway banner.
This marks the first project to emerge from Crooked Highway’s first-look deal with Screen Gems/Sony, setting the stage for what could be another thrilling horror experience from the filmmaking duo.
The story is a supernatural thriller set in Siberia along the Kolyma Highway, “a real highway that was built in Stalinist Soviet Union using the labor of prisoners from the region’s gulags.
“Lore has it that hundreds of thousands of inmates perished during the construction of the 2000 km road and due to the permafrost, it was judged easier to just built atop of the bodies.
The book is described as “a mix of folk and survival horror. It tells of an American documentarian who, intrigued by the road’s history, ends up fighting for his life in one of the coldest and most remote places on Earth.”
Golden is a Bram Stoker Award-winning author known for Ararat and Cut! Horror Writers on Horror Film, and he will executive produce alongside Vince Cheng and Pete Donaldson. Golden also has a long history in the comics world, co-creating Baltimore and other stories in the Outerverse alongside Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
Derrickson and Cargill are coming off the success of The Gorge, their Apple TV+ action-horror film starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy, which became Apple’s biggest film premiere to date. Next up for them is The Black Phone 2, set to terrify audiences on October 17th.
Source: THR
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