Fox Adapting The Passage Vampire Novel Trilogy for TV
A new vampire series appears to be heading to TV as a powerhouse team of writers, directors, and producers is working on “The Passage,” based on Justin Cronin’s fantasy book trilogy.
Per Deadline, Liz Heldens (“Friday Night Lights”), Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Let Me In), Scott Free Productions, and 20th Century Fox TV are all involved in the adaptation. Written by Heldens, with Reeves set to direct, “The Passage” begins as a character-driven government conspiracy thriller and morphs into a post-apocalyptic saga with vampires. It spans over a century and focuses on a young girl named Amy who must save the human race.
Heldens, Reeves, Adam Kassan of 6th & Idaho, and Ridley Scott and David W. Zucker of Scott Free Productions are executive producers. Author Cronin is co-producer. 20th Century Fox TV, where Heldens and Reeves’ 6th & Idaho are under overall deals, is the studio. Clayton Krueger will oversee for Scott Free and Rafi Crohn for 6th & Idaho.
The series has been in the works since 2007, when Fox 2000 landed the first book (then half-written) for $1.75 million for Scott Free to produce. Originally developed as a feature, the producers eventually determined that the property would be better served as a TV series. The project migrated to sister studio 20th Century Fox TV, which, working with Scott Free, attached Heldens because she loved the books and hit it off with the producers.
The Passage trilogy by Cronin includes the best-selling eponymous first book, published in 2010 by Random House’s Ballantine Books, which was followed by The Twelve in 2012 and The City of Mirrors earlier this year.
The Passage Book Synopsis:
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
First, the unthinkable: A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment.
Then, the unspeakable: A night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.
As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.
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