About a bunch of teenagers at a remote camp, horror novel adaptation Wilderness Reform is the latest project for the writers of M Night Shyamalan’s Knock At The Cabin.
As Trap, M Night Shyamalan’s ‘Silence Of The Lambs at a Taylor Swift concert’ thriller emerges in US cinemas, the writers of the twist master’s previous film, 2023’s Knock At The Cabin, have announced their latest project.
Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman, who previously adapted Paul G Tremblay’s horror novel The Cabin At The End Of The World as that aforementioned Shyamalan joint, are tackling another tense book about scary things happening in the middle of nowhere.
Published by Simon & Schuster in early July 2024, Wilderness Reform follows Ben, a 13 year-old boy who’s packed off to a “remote reform program for troubled teens” according to its synopsis: “But when he arrives at the camp, located on the edge of the vast wilderness of northwestern Montana, he immediately recognises that there is something off about the counselors. They’re too friendly and upbeat…yet Ben can tell there’s an undercurrent of menace.”
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The book was written by Colorado-based brothers Matt and Harrison Query, the former a ‘wildland firefighter and litigator’, the latter a writer who has a few credits on Hollywood scripts, including Three Musketeers and Heads Of State.
As announced by The Hollywood Reporter, Desmond and Sherman have been assigned to adapt the novel for Paramount Pictures, and it’ll be produced by Lindsey Anderson Beer, who made her directorial debut with the 2023 horror prequel, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines.
It’s possible that Beer will direct, though she’s currently busy making a couple of other films for Paramount – American Girl (about a line of dolls made by Mattel) and Optimize, a sci-fi film about a woman and her controlling AI assistant.
More on Wilderness Reform as we get it.
