Drew Goddard to write and perhaps direct adaptation of Sabrina graphic-novel

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Following his directorial debut with THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it took some time before Drew Goddard stepped into the director's chair once again for BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE, but we likely won't have quite as long to wait before his next effort. While Drew Goddard had been slated to write and direct X-FORCE, that particular project is currently in limbo thanks to the recent Disney/Fox merger, but it seems that Goddard's next film will be comic-book related after all as he's been tasked to write an adaptation of Nick Drnaso's "Sabrina."

The graphic-novel follows a grieving man whose girlfriend, Sabrina, goes missing. After going to live with his old friend – an Air Force surveillance expert dealing with his own failed marriage – a grisly videotape is anonymously sent to news outlets, causing Sabrina's disappearance to go viral. As the 24-hour news cycle and social media take hold of the story, the two men are targeted by vitriolic conspiracy theorists that threaten their sense of the truth and their faith in each other. In addition to writing the script, Drew Goddard will also produce along with RT Features and New Regency, with an eye towards directing as well. Nick Drnaso's graphic-novel has received a great amount of critical acclaim since its release last year, even becoming the first graphic-novel to be long-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize.

A synopsis of "Sabrina" via Amazon:

When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and the boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina’s grieving sister, Sandra, struggles to fill her days as she waits in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we see devastation through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives. The follow-up to Nick Drnaso’s Beverly, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. Presenting an indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake-news climate. Timely and articulate, Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster.