“The first great thriller of 2017 is here: Final Girls, by Riley Sager. If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King
Not to be confused with the exceptional meta slasher The Final Girls (2015) or the Abigail Breslin-starring Final Girl (2015), Final Girls was a novel published this past summer from author Riley Sager. The writer has a whole lot to celebrate tonight, as the novel is soon headed to the big screen.
Via Deadline, Universal Pictures has optioned the best-selling novel, intending to make a feature produced by Anonymous Content’s Nicole Clemens along with Sugar23’s Ashley Zalta and Michael Sugar.
“Final Girls centers on Quincy Carpenter, who 10 years ago as a college student went on vacation to Pine Cottage with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, the press dubbed her a “Final Girl,” coined for the group of similar survivors.”
Final Girls was released by Dutton on July 11, 2017.