EXCLUSIVE: Rising screenwriter Jenna Mattison has been tapped to script an adaptation of Decorum on the Deathbed, the 2021 novella from Hen Field‘s Josh Malerman, for the New York Occasions bestseller’s manufacturing home Spin a Black Yarn.
Launched completely as an Audible Unique, Decorum on the Deathbed follows a grieving widow that begins a twisted affair with the detective investigating the mutilated deer that hold showing within the forest behind her home. However as the connection deepens he begins to surprise if she’s actually a sufferer or a sociopathic killer. A disturbing and terrifying story unearthing the darkish shadows of the thoughts and discovering redemption in essentially the most sudden of locations.
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The story is described as an elevated psychological thriller — Physique Warmth meets Poe’s The Inform-Story Coronary heart. The seek for a director is underway, with Malerman and his producing accomplice Ryan Lewis (Hen Field, Incidents Across the Home) set to supply for Spin a Black Yarn.
Mattison isn’t any stranger to bestselling authors, having tailored novels by James Patterson and Sophie Kinsella, in addition to being introduced on in 2024 to adapt Dying to Be Me, the New York Occasions bestselling most cancers memoir by Anita Moorjani. At the moment, she’s serving as author and government producer on a TV sequence in improvement at Common based mostly on a world bestseller from Patterson. She’s additionally in pre-pro on Haunted, one other of her movies to be shot in Thailand with the Sundance and Unbiased Spirit Award-nominated Rosemary Rodriguez (The Strolling Lifeless, The Good Spouse) directing. Beforehand, Mattison wrote, directed and produced The Sound, a psychological thriller launched theatrically by Orion and Samuel Goldwn.
Malerman is greatest recognized for his New York Occasions bestseller Hen Field, the post-apocalyptic horror thriller tailored into Netflix’s 2018 movie of the identical identify. Directed by Susanne Bier and starring Sandra Bullock, the characteristic take stood for a time as the preferred movie within the streamer’s historical past, presently sitting at #5 on Netflix’s hottest movies checklist. A spin-off sequel, Hen Field: Barcelona, on which Malerman was an EP, premiered on Netflix in 2023.
Only in the near past, Malerman arrange a characteristic adaptation of his horror novel Incidents Across the Home at Common, with Jessica Chastain to star and Rob Savage directing, as we had been first to report. Atomic Monster and Blumhouse will produce in affiliation with Spin a Black Yarn, with pre-production underway.
Mattison is repped by Gersh, supervisor Geoff Silverman of Evoke Leisure, and Cohen & Gardner; Malerman by Ryan Lewis of Spin a Black Yarn, Kristin Nelson of Nelson Literary Company, and Wayne Alexander of Alexander Lawrence Frumes & Labowitz.
