GREEN ROOM Director Jeremy Saulnier Adapting HOLD THE DARK for Netflix

If you haven't seen Blue Ruin and Green Room yet, I'd highly recommend checking them out so you get to know the films of writer/director Jeremy Saulnier. He's a dynamic, up-and-coming talent who's making fascinating films right now, and his newest will be heading straight to Netflix. The Calgary Herald (via /Film) reports that Saulnier will shoot Hold the Dark, a film adaptation of William Giraldi's bestselling novel, for the streaming service, and production is set to begin in Calgary starting at the end of next month.

Written with “force and precision and grace” (John Wilwol, New York Times Book Review) Hold the Dark is a “taut and unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness” (Dennis Lehane). At the start of another pitiless winter, wolves have taken three children from the remote Alaskan village of Keelut, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core is called in to investigate these killings and discovers an unholy truth harbored by Medora before she disappears. When her husband returns home to discover his boy dead and his wife missing, he begins a maniacal pursuit that cuts a bloody swath across the frozen landscape. With the help of a local police detective, Core attempts to find Medora before her husband does, setting in motion a deadly chain of events in this “chilling, mysterious, and completely engaging novel” (Tim O’Brien) that marks the arrival of a major American writer.

That plot description sounds very much in line with the intense movies Saulnier has made in the past, and I'm excited to see what he's going to do with it. No cast has been announced yet, but I'd be shocked if actor Macon Blair, who has appeared in all of the director's films thus far, didn't have a major role in it. Incidentally, Blair just made his directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with a movie called I don't feel at home in this world anymore., which will arrive on Netflix on February 24, 2017.