Fresh off the found footage horror hit Host and more recently Dashcam, Rob Savage will next be directing an adaptation of Dark Horse comic Night of the Ghoul, Deadline reports.
20th Century Studios picked up the rights to Scott Snyder and Francesco Francavilla‘s horror comic, with Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, and Dan Cohen producing for 21 Laps.
Interesting to note, Night of the Ghoul hasn’t actually been released yet. The first issue of the series from Dark Horse Comics will be releasing this Wednesday, October 5.
“The story follows a father and son looking into the true story behind a long-lost horror film from the golden era of monster movies. But as they dig deeper, they risk unleashing the very thing the supposedly destroyed film had meant to keep hidden.”
Here’s a longer plot synopsis for the comic series…
“Shot in 1936, Night of the Ghoul by writer/director T.F. Merritt was meant to sit beside Frankenstein and Dracula as an instant classic . . . But the legendary film never made it to the silver screen. Just before editing was finished, a mysterious studio fire destroyed the footage and killed the cast and crew celebrating at the wrap party.
“Forest Inman is a horror film obsessive who digitizes old films for the famed Aurora movie studio. When Forest stumbles across a seemingly forgotten canister of footage, he just might have discovered the remnants of the lost classic Night of the Ghoul. This discovery sends Forest on a dark odyssey, where he is warned by a mysterious old man that the film’s ghoul is far more than a work of fiction: it’s a very real monster who plans to kill him.”
Snyder and Francavilla will be executive producers on the movie adaptation.
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