DNA Films Acquires Rights to Horror Novel The Loney
John Squires
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Released last year, Andrew Michael Hurley’s novel The Loney has already become a hot commodity in Hollywood, with studios vying to acquire the rights to adapt it. In the midst of much competition, a deal has been inked, and we’ve got all the details for ya today. Read on!
Per Deadline, DNA Films (28 Days Later, Dredd, Ex Machina) has nabbed the rights to the critically acclaimed and award-winning modern Gothic horror novel, which Stephen King hailed as “an amazing piece of fiction.”
Set in 1976 on a wild piece of English coastline somewhere in the north-west, The Loney follows fifteen-year-old Tonto and his older brother, Hanny, as they embark on their annual pilgrimage with their parents, a Catholic priest, and a collection of other oddballs to visit a nearby shrine. Tonto and Hanny’s parents hope the shrine will cure their son of his seemingly severe learning difficulties and muteness. They are holed up in an old house that, twice a day, is engulfed by a murderous tide while a mystery hangs over the group following the death of last year’s priest. Murkier yet are a couple staying at a house across the bay with a – possibly underage – heavily pregnant girl in a wheelchair.
The official book synopsis is below. We’ll have more on this project as we learn it!
Book Synopsis:
When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy. At that time, his devoutly Catholic mother was determined to find healing for Hanny, his disabled older brother. And so the family, along with members of their parish, embarked on an Easter pilgrimage to an ancient shrine.
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