EXCLUSIVE:
Michael B. Jordan‘s
Outlier Society has optioned
The House of Last Resort, the high concept horror novel from New York Times bestselling author
Christopher Golden, for feature
development.
Golden, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-winner who counts
Hellboy: The Crooked Man amongst his screenwriting credits, will adapt the book for the screen. In addition to Jordan, Elizabeth Raposo will produce for Outlier Society, alongside Golden and Pete Donaldson of Donaldson Media.
Published last January by St. Martin’s Press,
The House of Last Resort follows a young American couple who relocate to a Sicilian hill town, where the mayor is selling abandoned homes to foreigners for a single Euro in an effort to revitalize the faltering community, in a move reflective of a recent real-life trend in Italy and other countries. Soon, they learn their new home has walled-up catacombs beneath it, whispers in its walls, and a dark history.
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