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EXCLUSIVE: Gary Dauberman‘s Coin Operated has secured nan authorities to Rest Stop, a precocious published scary novella by Nat Cassidy, pinch an oculus toward processing a characteristic adaptation.
Cassidy will accommodate nan screenplay, pinch Dauberman and Mia Maniscalco to nutrient done Coin Operated.
Rest Stop follows a young musician who finds himself locked wrong a state position bath successful nan mediate of nan nighttime by an unseen assailant, caught betwixt nan horrors connected nan different broadside of nan doorway and nan horrors quickly skittering down nan walls inside. The communicative is portion of Cassidy’s collection, I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, which Shortwave Publishing and Simon & Schuster released connected May 5.
“I for illustration to picture this novella arsenic ‘Green Room meets Gerald’s Game,'” Cassidy told us. “It’s nan closest point I’ve yet written to ‘extreme’ scary — though, I wouldn’t opportunity it goes astir arsenic difficult aliases gets astir arsenic bleak arsenic nan astir utmost ‘extreme’ scary stories I’ve read. Regardless, I’m hoping it makes your adjacent sojourn to a state position bath moreover scarier than it would different be.”
Dauberman said, “Like nan junk nutrient aisle astatine immoderate sketchy state position connected nan broadside of nan road, Rest Stop has a small spot of everything (that whitethorn aliases whitethorn not termination you). Its relentless pace, psychological torment, heartfelt characteristic moments, and galore squirm-inducing sequences make it nan uncommon scary communicative that has each nan ingredients for a perfectly terrifying acquisition connected nan large screen.”
A USA Today bestseller and Bram Stoker Award nominee, Cassidy’s different useful include Mary, When nan Wolf Comes Home and Nestlings. His award-winning plays person been produced crossed nan country, including Off-Broadway and nan Kennedy Center. He’s besides been seen impermanent starring connected shows like Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Bull, Quantico, FBI and galore others, and is repped by Alec Shane astatine Writers House LLC.
Under a accumulation woody pinch Sony/Screen Gems, Coin Operated’s first task arsenic portion of that was nan video game Until Dawn, pinch David F. Sandberg astatine nan helm and Dauberman arsenic shaper and writer.
Upcoming for nan institution is André Øvredal’s supernatural scary film Passenger, starring Melissa Leo, Lou Lloubell and Jacob Scipio, which Paramount releases May 22. Also successful nan useful is The Revenge of La Llorona, directed by Santiago Menghini, which Warner Bros. releases adjacent year.
Coin Operated’s improvement slate includes Urban Legend, a modern era reboot of nan Screen Gems’ 1990s slasher movie of nan aforesaid name; The Medium, based connected nan award-winning horror-themed video game; Ushers, based connected Joe Hill’s short story, for Screen Gems; and He Never Dies, written by David Yarovesky, who will besides direct.
