David Bruckner Ready to Adapt The Ritual
Steve Barton
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I’ve seen enough movies to know to stay the hell out of the woods, but that doesn’t stop most people from trekking into them, never to be seen again. Actually, I’m grateful to these nuts because they make great fodder for horror films.
According to The Tracking Board, David Bruckner is set to write and direct The Ritual, an adaptation of the award-winning horror novel by Adam Nevill, for Andy Serkis’ The Imaginarium. Rafe Spall, Robert James-Collier, and Sam Troughton are attached to star.
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.
Joe Barton (Humans) was previously attached to set to adapt Nevill’s novel, which won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel in 2012.
Jonathan Cavendish will produce for The Imaginarium with Richard Holmes and Philip Robertson. Chloe Sizer will oversee for Imaginarium, while Laura Wilson will oversee for eOne, which will finance and distribute.
Bruckner wrote and directed the 2008 horror film The Signal before tackling a segment of the horror anthology V/H/S in 2012. He most recently wrote and directed Southbound for Willowbrook Regent and The Orchard. Bruckner is currently in development with the thriller Intrusion from Lava Bear Films.
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