The Werewolf Thriller CURSE Is Being Adapted as a Feature Film
Blumhouse Productions has teamed up with Boom! Studios to adapt the werewolf thriller graphic novel, Curse, into a feature film. Blumhouse has been involved wit the development of a ton of horror films over the years, some of which include Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister, The Visit, and the upcoming film The Darkness. Curse seems like it would make another solid horror project for them to produce.
I haven’t read the graphic novel, but I’ve heard it’s a pretty awesome read. It’s a father-son story with werewolves, and I have a story description here that pretty much sums it up:
The story centers on a widowed father who is desperate and financially broken from trying to save his child from a rare illness. Seizing the opportunity to claim a reward offered for the capture of a killer in his rural community, he inadvertently captures a werewolf. The question then becomes whether the lycan will be the broken family’s reluctant savior or its final destroyer.
This sounds like great story that will make for an intense film. I love the fact that this isn’t a story about a man driven by revenge. It’s a story about a father fighting for his son’s life. Then there’s a werewolf thrown into the mix and takes things to a whole new interesting level.
Boom! Studios has several projects in development at the moment including a superhero comic called Irredeemable, which is set up at Fox with Adam McKay to direct. They are also developing The Empty Man, which is also set up at Fox with David Fincher protege David Prior set to write and direct the film. Then there’s Tag, which is being developed by Annabelle filmmaker John R. Leonetti.
Source: THR