A viral horror story from Reddit/NoSleep, the tale of the Purgatory Games is headed to the big screen with a movie adaptation from Lyrical Media, Deadline reports this week.
The original story was written by Sam Haysom, and Deadline additionally reports that Bryce Edward Hill (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”) will adapt the tale into a feature film.
Deadline details, “In Purgatory Games, when a mysterious narrator receives a USB drive from an unknown source containing videos and transcripts of six strangers trapped in an underground bunker with unusual rules to gain their freedom, an investigation begins into this secret, disturbing experiment. The project has been billed as Ring meets Squid Game.”
Alex Black and Natalie Sellers produce for Lyrical Media with Brian Kavanaugh Jones and Fred Berger producing for Automatik. Hill and Gemma Levinson will also serve as EPs.
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