The Ritual Sells Big to Netflix
Steve Barton
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David Bruckner’s The Ritual, which is an adaptation of Adam Nevill’s award-winning horror novel, has made a lot of noise out of the Toronto International Film Festival, attracting everyone from Lionsgate, Annapurna, IFC and Saban Films to Netflix.
THR is reporting that Netflix has acquired The Ritual from eOne for the world, excluding the U.K. A source pegged the deal at $4.75 million, which would make it one of the top deals of the Toronto market (I Love You, Daddy to The Orchard and I, Tonya to Neon/30WEST — both for $5 million — slightly eclipsed The Ritual price tag).
Rafe Spall, Robert James-Collier, and Sam Troughton star in The Ritual, which is produced by Andy Serkis’ The Imaginarium.
Synopsis:
Nevill’s novel centers on four friends from college who head off into the Scandinavian wild in an effort to get away from it all and reconnect with each other. But what begins as a trip of bonding and friendship turns into a nightmare when they take a shortcut and end up lost. Some of them are injured, and they seem stranded with nothing but forest in every direction. While trying to find their way back to civilization, they come across what seems to be an abandoned cottage. Inside they discover ancient artifacts on the wall and bones scattered on the floor in a sacrificial manner. They soon discover that something is stalking them and is intent on keeping them from leaving the woods.
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