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The Passage
Release Date: TBA
Genres: Horror
Production Phase: Script Stage
Studio: Fox 2000 Production Company: Scott Free Productions
Who's Making It: Ridley Scott (Director), John Logan (Screenwriter), Justin Cronin (Creator - Writer),
Premise: Terminally ill test subjects are treated with an experimental drug that turns them into bloodthirsty killers.... More »
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Gladiator screenwriter John Logan has been selected to adapt Justin Cronin's horror novel The Passage into a screen story. Ridley Scott is attached to direct the film for Fox. [Full story]
- Variety. Comment on this Scoop (0)Monday, July 9, 2007
Fox 2000 has bought the screen rights to The Passage, a horror novel to be published by Ballantine. Written by Justin Cronin under the pen name Jordan Ainsley, the book tells of the horrors that are unleashed when a group of terminally ill test subjects are bitten by vampire bats from South America. The ill patients seemingly become fully healthy but soon after they begin to exhibit vampire-like cravings and become deadly.
Ballantine bought the publishing rights to Cronin's book fro $3.75 million dollars after reading the first 400 pages of the 1,200 page novel.