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Netflix and ‘Shazam!’ Director David F. Sandberg Teaming to Adapt Graphic Horror Novel ‘The Unsound’
Cullen Bunn and Jack T. Cole’s graphic novel The Unsound is getting a feature film adaptation, with Deadline reporting today that Netflix has landed the rights. Director David F. Sandberg, who arrived on the scene with the horror films Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation and most recently directed Shazam!, will be heading back to the horror genre to direct the film.
In BOOM! Studios’ The Unsound:
“A psychiatrist returns to the insane asylum where her mother once worked and is now a patient, hoping to quell a bloody wave of horror that’s been unleashed.”
“As she descends down the rabbit hole and discovers hard truths about her own past, she comes to understand the hospital is hiding secrets of its own, and perhaps she and her mother have more in common than she realized.”
Skylar James (29 Mole Street) is on board to write the script.
Keith C. Blackmore’s book series Mountain Man is headed to the screen, with Deadline reporting today that Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”) is on board to star in the film adaptation.
The actor will also produce the upcoming zombie movie.
“Mountain Man tells the story of Gus, a lonely post-apocalyptic survivor facing isolation and the ever-present specter of a zombie attack, who struggles with alcohol abuse and suicidal thoughts until he discovers another survivor, a captivating woman who poses another threat altogether.”
John Lee (False Positive) will direct Mountain Man from a script by Matt Deller.
“John is a brilliant creative mind. We’ve been looking for the right thing to do together since we filmed Pee Wee’s Big Holiday and it’s finally here,” 3:59’s Joe and Nick Manganiello told Deadline. “Very excited to get to work on such weird, wild project with him.”
Film Bridge International is launching sales on the project in Cannes.
Blackmore’s Mountain Man series features 7 books, the first one published in 2011.
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