An adaptation of Justin Cronin’s novel
Matt Reeves (Let Me In) appears to be at a phase in his career where he’s just throwing projects at the wall to see what will stick.
Last week yielded the news that he’ll adapt Eight O’Clock in the Morning, the story that served as the basis for John Carpenter’s They Live. This week comes another project he’s attached to: An adaptation of Justin Cronin’s “The Passage.”
The book was acquired a few years back with Ridley and Tony Scott attached to produce. For a while, there were rumors the former would direct. Deadline says, however, Fox 2000 is putting Reeves at the helm.
Here’s a description of the novel from its publisher, Random House:
An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amyâabandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girlâand risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escapeâbut he canât stop societyâs collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
Source: Deadline
