Variety reports that fright-friendly Gold Circle Films has picked up a horror script called THE NEW DAUGHTER by John Travis, based on a short story by John Connolly that appeared in the author’s recently published anthology NOCTURNES. The story concerns a man who moves with his two children to a new home in rural Illinois, where he discovers that a nearby burial mound is inhabited by an ancient evil force that starts to have a frightening effect on his daughter’s behavior. Paul Brooks, head of Gold Circle, will produce; no director has yet been attached.
Both writers involved have additional scary projects set up elsewhere: Travis’ supernatural screenplay REDWOOD has been optioned by actor Gary Oldman as a producing/starring vehicle, while Stephen (THE GRUDGE) Susco has penned SANCTUARY, an adaptation of Connolly’s novel BAD MEN (about a murder spree with supernatural origins on an island off the coast of Maine), for Sobini Films.
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