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EXCLUSIVE: In a preemptive move, Lionsgate has locked down authorities to Carry Me to My Grave, a buzzy forthcoming caller from New York Times bestselling writer Christopher Golden, arsenic a improvement task for Francis Lawrence, who is eyeing nonstop and nutrient nether his first-look woody pinch nan studio.
Lawrence’s partner Cameron Maconomy will besides produce, arsenic will Scott Glassgold and his 12:01 Films. Golden and Pete Donaldson will exec produce, pinch Meredith Wieck and Pavan Kalidindi overseeing nan task for Lionsgate. Phil Strina negotiated deals connected behalf of nan studio.
Releasing July 21 via St. Martin’s Press, Carry Me to My Grave is described arsenic a supernatural thrill thrust pursuing a man trying to protect his dormant mother’s assemblage from nan evil that is hunting it.
Lawrence is seemingly nan cleanable fresh for nan material, arsenic personification who has directed high-profile genre adaptations based connected literate IP to awesome captious and commercialized occurrence — I Am Legend, The Long Walk, and five Hunger Games movies, including nan upcoming Sunrise connected nan Reaping, among them.
Lawrence is coming disconnected nan merchandise of endurance thriller The Long Walk, starring Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, an adjustment of nan same-name Stephen King novel, which Lionsgate took to theaters past fall. Coming up for merchandise by nan workplace connected Nov. 20 is his latest Hunger Games film, Sunrise connected nan Reaping, marking nan 2nd prequel pursuing up nan original deed dystopian trilogy by Suzanne Collins. He is repped by CAA and Gretchen Rusch.
For Golden, Carry Me to My Grave is nan latest caller group up for adaptation, connected nan heels of Road of Bones and The House of Last Resort. Sony has Road of Bones, which Scott Derrickson will nonstop from a book written pinch C. Robert Cargill; Amazon and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society have The House of Last Resort, which Golden is adapting himself.
Also known for co-writing two Hellboy flicks — 2019’s Hellboy and 2024’s The Crooked Man — Golden is nan recipient of Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards, recognizing his fiction. He is repped by Verve and Pete Donaldson.
The waste of Grave continues a accelerated commencement to 2026 for Glassgold and his 12:01, having precocious packaged and sold nan sought-after short communicative “Grand Rising” to Searchlight, pinch Lena Waithe adapting and Steve Caple Jr. directing, arsenic good arsenic nan Harrison Query spec Kill Switch to Netflix pinch Jake Gyllenhaal starring.
Up next, Glassgold is group to participate accumulation connected Drew Hancock’s adjustment of Query’s bestselling novel My Wife and I Bought a Ranch for Amazon MGM Studios. He is repped by Verve and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
