EXCLUSIVE: Michael B. Jordan‘s Outlier Society has optioned The Home of Final Resort, the excessive idea horror novel from New York Instances bestselling creator Christopher Golden, for characteristic growth.
Golden, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-winner who counts Hellboy: The Crooked Man amongst his screenwriting credit, will adapt the ebook for the display. Along with Jordan, Elizabeth Raposo will produce for Outlier Society, alongside Golden and Pete Donaldson of Donaldson Media.
Printed final January by St. Martin’s Press, The Home of Final Resort follows a younger American couple who relocate to a Sicilian hill city, the place the mayor is promoting deserted houses to foreigners for a single Euro in an effort to revitalize the faltering group, in a transfer reflective of a current real-life development in Italy and different international locations. Quickly, they study their new house has walled-up catacombs beneath it, whispers in its partitions, and a darkish historical past.
Lately, creator Golden has additionally obtained the Audie Award for his work within the audio drama house, which has included a number of Hellboy initiatives in addition to co-writing and co-directing Slayers: A Buffyverse Story with Amber Benson, an enormous hit for Audible. His novel Street of Bones is at the moment in growth at Display Gems with Crooked Freeway.
At the moment, Outlier is prepping a reimagining of The Thomas Crown Affair for Amazon MGM Studios, the place the corporate is below a first-look movie and TV deal. Along with starring reverse Taylor Russell, Jordan is about to direct the image following huge field workplace success together with his directorial debut, 2023’s Creed III, which set a number of data at a worldwide gross exceeding $276M, notching the very best opening for the Creed franchise, in addition to the most important home opening ever for a sports activities movie.
Outlier’s growth slate at the moment consists of the movie Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 at Paramount Footage with director Chad Stahelski, in addition to a number of collection. These embody a high-profile adaptation of Fourth Wing, the fantasy bestseller by Rebecca Yarros, in addition to Amazon’s The Biggest on the lifetime of Muhammad Ali.
As an actor, Jordan will subsequent be seen starring in Ryan Coogler’s unique interval horror movie Sinners, which is projected to open to $40M+ over Easter weekend.
Outlier Society is repped by WME, M88, and legal professional Greg Slewett. Golden is repped by IAG and legal professional Adam Rosen.
