Paramount Pictures is adapting Harrison Query and Matt Query‘s coming-of-age horror thriller novel Wilderness Reform, and they’ve enlisted the writing duo behind last year’s Knock at the Cabin to pen the adaptation, per THR.
Wilderness Reform will be penned by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, the screenwriters of M. Night Shyamalan‘s 2023 apocalyptic thriller, and produced by Lindsey Anderson Beer, who wrote and made her feature directorial debut with the horror movie Pet Sematary: Bloodline for the studio last year, through her Lab Brew production company as part of her first-look deal with Paramount.
The plot is “set in a wilderness camp for troubled teens and tells of a 13-year-old boy named Ben who is sent there as part of a reform program. Although the counselors are overly happy, a sinister current runs through the place. The boys Ben befriends seem to have unique skills, which is lucky, because the group is going to need all the help it can get in uncovering the mystery behind mysterious events and disappearances, and the evil lurking beneath the camp itself.”
Also producing is Scott Glassgold through his production company Ground Control.
The book has been described as ” having shades of classic Stephen King stories and dealing with themes of loss of innocence.” What’s interesting to note is the novel only published July 2, 2024, putting Harrison and Matt Query’s novel on the fast track to adaptation. The authors are also behind the critically praised 2022 novel Old Country.
Stay tuned for additional details on Wilderness Reform as they arrive.
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