Thriller author Scott Nicholson, who has written such novels as THE HARVEST, THE HOME and the upcoming THEY HUNGER, can celebrate a bit today.
AITH scored some news today that Nicholson’s screen adaptation of his novel THE MANOR has been optioned for feature film development. The company that has taken on the project is Inevitable Film Group, who is currently developing over a dozen other feature films.
The MANOR is about a haunted house story that explores the risk of suffering for art. Combining elements that made THE HAUNTING and HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL into horror classics, it also taps a love story, Appalachian folk magic, the power of the creative spirit and the obsessions that drive artists to the point of utter madness. In the remote Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina, artists gather at the historic Korban Manor for a retreat. Sculptor Mason Jackson is making his last bid for success and finds himself driven to carve a life-sized wooden statue of the late Ephram Korban, the man who built the manor. Anna Galloway, a psychic who is dying of cancer, has come to the manor to find proof of the supernatural before she dies. As the artists become increasingly obsessed with Ephram Korban, their work brings Korban’s spirit to life. This spirit invades Mason’s statue and, with Anna’s help, Mason is driven to destroy his masterpiece before Korban makes himself at home for good.
Since the film is being developed, there is no word on cast, director or producer. It may take a while but more news on this film will come sooner than later.