Stephen King heaped praise on last year’s horror novel Coffin Moon, and today brings the announcement from Deadline that Jessica Biel is teaming with Paramount Television Studios to develop a series adaptation.
Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Painkiller) are attached to develop, adapt, and showrun the series.
The ’70s set story sees a veteran and his niece hunted by the vampires that slaughtered their whole family.
In author Keith Rosson’s (Fever House, The Devil by Name) horror novel: “It’s the winter of 1975, and Portland, Oregon, is all sleet and neon. Duane Minor is back home after a tour in Vietnam, a bartender just trying to stay sober; save his marriage with his wife, Heidi; and connect with his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, now that he’s responsible for raising her. Things aren’t easy, but Minor is scraping by.
“Then a vampire walks into his bar and ruins his life.
“When Minor crosses John Varley, a killer who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon, Varley brutally retaliates by murdering Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia filled with rage. What’s left of their splintered family is united by only one desire: vengeance.
“So begins a furious, frenzied pursuit across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. From grimy alleyways to desolate highways to snow-lashed plains, Minor and Julia are cast into the dark orbit of undead children, silver bullet casters, and the bevy of broken men transfixed by Varley’s ferocity. Everyone’s out for blood.”
King called the novel “mind-blowingly good!“
The project is part of Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple’s Iron Ocean first look deal with Paramount.
The announcement arrives as Rosson’s novel receives its paperback edition, publishing today.
