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“Gone Girl” Author’s Short Story Being Optioned for TV or Film
Author Gillian Flynn is riding high after the critical success of David Fincher’s Gone Girl. She has since worked on HBO’s “Utopia” as well as collaborated on a new comic series titled “Masks”, which will be released on Dark Horse Comics. Now, the author is taking her short story “The Grownup” to the market for a possible film or TV adaptation, according to TB.
The site describes “The Grownup” as a, “…ghost story similar to Henry James’ Turn of the Screw. It tells the story of a a woman struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of [mostly] harmless fraud. While “reading auras,” our heroine meets a woman who claims to be terrorized by poltergeists. She visits the home where the occurrences take place to find that she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore as she finds herself locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.”
The story appeared in “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin’s anthology “Rogues” under the titled “What Do You Do?” It will be published on its own by Random House on November 3rd.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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