New Line Cinema, once known as “The House That Freddy Built” and now the company at the center of the Conjuring Universe, has announced that they’re working on an environmental horror thriller called Thaw – but they’re keeping plot details under wraps, so the fact that it’s an “environmental horror thriller” is all we know about it. Going by the description and the title, we can speculate that climate change causes ice to thaw and release something horrific from within. The Thing is what comes to mind whenever I think of something scary being released from thawing ice, so that’s why I picked a picture from John Carpenter’s 1982 version of The Thing to go with this article. We don’t have any Thaw imagery to use yet.
Gunpowder & Sky, a production banner that previously brought us Summer of 84 and the Sam Raimi anthology series 50 States of Fright, is producing Thaw with Adam Goldworm of Aperture Entertainment. Aperture is currently developing a series adaptation of the Grady Hendrix novel The Final Girl Support Group (you can pick up a copy HERE) for the HBO Max streaming service.
Thaw began with an original screenplay written by Jeremy Passmore. Passmore co-wrote and co-directed the Michael Rapaport film Special, was one of the writers on the Red Dawn remake, co-wrote the Bruce Willis movies The Prince and Vice, and received a story credit on the Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson disaster movie San Andreas. That makes Thaw his debut horror feature, so hopefully it will be an awesome one.
This project is clearly still in very early stages. Going by the information provided by The Hollywood Reporter, it doesn’t sound like New Line and their collaborators even have a director attached to this one yet. We’ll keep you updated on Thaw as it continues to move forward.