Wiip, the company behind the Emmy-winning HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown, has acquired the rights to make a film adaptation of the horror graphic novel Adamtine, Deadline reports. Mark Roybal, Paul Lee, and Nate Winslow will be producing the film, while the graphic novel’s writer Hannah Berry serves as executive producer. The deal was brokered by Berry’s representative, Emma Topping of Viv Loves Film.
Berry told Deadline that Mare of Easttown is one of her “favorite series of the last ten years,” so she feels that she “could not have asked for a better home” for Adamtine than Wiip. She went on to say, “I’m delighted beyond measure, and hugely grateful to Emma Topping for making it happen. I’m very much looking forward to working with Wiip and – in the best possible way – unsettling a lot of people together.”
Roybal added, “When we were introduced to Hannah’s masterful graphic novel, we discovered that not only was this a beloved cult classic, but it has also been passionately revered by horror aficionados from the moment it was published ten years ago. We are thrilled to partner with Hannah and bring Adamtine to life.”
Adamtine (pick up a copy HERE) was first published in 2012. The graphic novel has the following description: All people could do was speculate on the fate of those who vanished—strangers; seemingly random, unconnected: all plucked from their lives and never seen again. The notes found left behind, apparently describing some slender reason for their removal, were all that linked them. They were all delivered by one man. Rodney Moon had admitted seeing those who had been disappeared and to passing the notes, but denied any involvement beyond that. Who wrote the letters, then? Moon shrugged during the trial: “It has no name,” he said. “It’s a bogeyman. A monster.” He was not mourned when the vengeful bereft finally found him. Some years later, four strangers; seemingly random, unconnected, all take the last train home. But something each of them has forgotten—or is trying to forget—is catching up with them; with a terrible, inexorable purpose. The devil is in the detail, as they say.
A short synopsis shared by Deadline goes like this: Four strangers on the last train home, all with their own connections to a serial killer, are stalked by a sneaking, shapeless evil with nowhere to run.
I haven’t read Adamtine, but that sounds very promising to me.
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