Jessica Biel Teams With Paramount For COFFIN MOON Vampire Horror Series
A vampire, a frozen 1975 Oregon winter, and a family out for blood. Coffin Moon sounds like it could make for an interesting and fun horror series.
Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple are teaming with Paramount Television Studios to develop a TV adaptation of Keith Rosson’s horror novel Coffin Moon through their Iron Ocean production company’s first-look deal with the studio.
Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue, the writing and producing duo behind A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Netflix’s Painkiller, are attached to develop and adapt the novel. They will also serve as showrunners, while Rosson is joining the project as a consulting producer.
The story takes place during a vicious Oregon winter in 1975 and centers on a veteran and his adopted niece. After a vampire massacres their family, the two set out to hunt the creature responsible. The problem is that the vampire is hunting them right back.
Rosson’s novel debuted last September and was inspired by Charles Portis’ classic novel True Grit. News of the adaptation arrives alongside Random House’s paperback release of Coffin Moon. Rosson has written seven novels, with his other books including Crone, Fever House, and The Devil by Name.
The series also continues the relationship between Paramount Television Studios and Iron Ocean. The companies are already developing The Ambler Warning, a spy thriller based on Robert Ludlum’s bestselling novel. Biel is attached to star in that project as well as executive produce.
Harpster and Fitzerman-Blue bring plenty of experience to Coffin Moon. They also have several other adaptations in the works. The pair are adapting The Dress for TriStar, with Serena Williams and Ruth Carter producing, and they’re writing and producing Netflix’s feature adaptation of The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife.
They’re also adapting Skywalkers for Laika and XYZ, based on the Netflix documentary about the rooftopping couple who were recently arrested after scaling the Empire State Building.
There’s a lot to like about Coffin Moon as a horror series. A 1970s Oregon setting, a savage winter, a vampire on the hunt, and two survivors determined to kill the monster that destroyed their family gives Harpster and Fitzerman-Blue plenty to sink their teeth into.
Source: Deadline