Selected by Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro as the best new horror book of last year, Daniel Kraus’ Whalefall is now getting a big screen movie adaptation.
Brian Duffield (Love and Monsters, No One Will Save You) is on board to co-write and direct the movie adaptation of Kraus’ novel, Deadline reports this afternoon.
20th Century Studios has snapped up the distribution rights to the Imagine Entertainment film, and Deadline additionally notes that Kraus will co-write the screenplay with Duffield.
The book is described as The Martian meets 127 Hours.
The storyline follows “a scuba diver in search of his deceased father’s remains who gets swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. It’s a tale about a young man who has given up on life — only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.”
Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and Allan Mandelbaum produce for Imagine Entertainment.
Meagan raved last year, “Kraus’ brisk-paced novel toggles between survival horror and an internal journey through grief in the most propulsive way possible. Jay’s keen survival instincts and the insanely disturbing obstacles that comes from being swallowed alive gets grounded by the melancholy process of forgiveness. It’s the most pulse-pounding read of the year.”
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