EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively closed a deal to adapt “The Blanks,” the horror-thriller brief story by style maestro Grady Hendrix, for movie.
21 Laps‘ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce beneath the corporate’s longstanding inventive partnership with Netflix, alongside Aperture Leisure’s Adam Goldworm, with Hendrix exec producing. No phrase but on who will direct or script the variation. That is the second brief story Hendrix has taken to market following “Ankle Snatcher,” which he’s been set to adapt for Sony and Escape Artists, with Aperture producing.
In The Blanks, a household returns to their trip dwelling on Jeckle Island, as they do each summer season, settling into acquainted routines and abiding by the island’s unstated guidelines. However when Rachel’s son discovers a household pal collapsed and confronted by one thing unspeakable, the phantasm of normalcy shatters — setting off a sequence of occasions that can change their lives ceaselessly.
The story was launched as a part of Amazon Originals’ The Shivers assortment that includes six unique brief tales written by New York Occasions finest promoting authors Joe Hill, Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones, Catriona Ward and Owen King.
With almost all of his earlier works being tailored for movie or TV, Hendrix has rapidly develop into a author to observe within the style house. He’s the creator of New York Occasions bestsellers together with The Southern Guide Membership’s Information to Slaying Vampires (in improvement at HBO), The Remaining Woman Help Group (beforehand in improvement at HBO Max), and Methods to Promote a Haunted Home (in improvement at Legendary with James Ashcroft directing and Sam Raimi’s Ghost Home producing). Different works embody Horrorstör (arrange at New Republic with Hendrix adapting), My Finest Buddy’s Exorcism (tailored for movie by Amazon), We Offered Our Souls, and the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction guide Paperbacks from Hell. So far, his books have offered greater than 2.4 million copies worldwide.
Coming off a record-breaking 2024 with Deadpool & Wolverine, which turned the highest-grossing R-rated film in historical past with a worldwide gross exceeding $1.3 billion, 21 Laps is presently at work on the fifth and last season of Netflix’s Stranger Issues, which premieres later this yr. Most not too long ago, the corporate has introduced a characteristic adaptation of Freida McFadden’s psychological thriller By no means Lie and a Madonna restricted collection, each additionally for Netflix.
Goldworm’s boutique administration manufacturing firm Aperture Leisure is presently set to provide Hannibal at Netflix with Denzel Washington starring and Antoine Fuqua directing, Thaw at New Line with Evil Useless Rise‘s Lee Cronin directing, Horrorstör at New Republic, Widmyer & Kolsch’s indie horror movie The Swallow, and How To Promote a Haunted Home at Legendary. Goldworm beforehand produced the lauded indies Useless Mail and My Buddy Dahmer and the $147M-plus gross Vin Diesel actioner The Final Witch Hunter. Aperture can be growing a collection adaptation of Hendrix’s The Remaining Woman Help Group, in addition to an adaptation of the Picture comics collection Proof at Fox with Westbrook.
Hendrix is repped by Aperture Leisure, JABberwocky’s Joshua Bilmes, and Gang,Tyre, Ramer; Goldworm by legal professional Ashley Silver of Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer.
