According to THR, the studio will adapt the book with Twilight author Stephenie Meyer producing. Cortés is set to direct. Meyer and Meghan Hibbett, who will also produce, optioned the supernatural novel through their Fickle Fish Films last year.
The story follows Kit Gordy, a new student at the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School who confronts the school’s supernatural occurrences and dark powers of its headmistress.
Michael Goldbach was brought on by Meyer and Hibbett to write the original draft of the screenplay. Chris Sparling, who wrote Gus Van Sant’s upcoming Sea of Trees and the thriller Buried, will do additional writing on the script.
Duncan’s novels have previously been adapted into films including 1997’s slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer and 2009’s Hotel For Dogs.