Writers Sought for Don't Breathe a Word Adaptation
Evil Dead director Sam Raimi and producer Rob Tapert's Ghost House Pictures and Gold Circle Entertainment are looking for a writer for their adaptation of Jennifer McMahon’s Don't Breathe a Word, a contemporary thriller that delves into the supernatural.
A real page turner, the book, which was written in 2011, sees family secrets and fairy lore collide to shift reality. The story follows the disappearance of Lisa, 12-year-old girl who longs to become the Queen of the Fairies.
Fifteen years after Lisa goes missing, her younger brother, Sam, gets a strange phone call that leads him and his girlfriend, Phoebe, to discover a book, supposedly written by the King of the Fairies, that Lisa used as her bible to cross over, and which prompts Sam and Phoebe to meet up with Sam’s cousin, Evie, to see if they can figure out what happened to Lisa. Nothing is as it seems from that moment on, and Phoebe’s longtime fear of a dark man in the shadows seeps back after she discovers, in true woo-woo fashion, that she is pregnant.
The unsettling book has received widespread acclaim for its intricate, clockwork plotting. Here's hoping the movie can capture the same unnerving spirit.