Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are teaming up again and this time they’ll adapt Christopher Golden’s horror novel “Road of Bones” into a new feature film…
Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are ready to travel down the “Road of Bones.”
The director and writer, who have previously teamed up for critically acclaimed horror films such as “Sinister” and “The Black Phone,” are once again joining forces to adapt the novel by author Christopher Golden that was first released back in 2022.
“Road of Bones” delves into both real history and horror set in Siberia along the Kolyma Highway — a real highway that was built during Joseph Stalin’s reign over the Soviet Union using prisoners housed in the gulags. Stories about the highway told that hundreds of thousands of prisoners perished building the road and rather than dispose of the bodies, it was deemed cheaper and easier to just leave the prisoners where they died and let the cold, snowy landscape just swallow them up.
The book follows an American documentarian who is fascinated by the story about the Road of Bones and he decides to travel down this highway collecting ghost stories and myths along the way while traveling to the remote town of Akhust, which is deemed the coldest place on Earth. But when the documentary crew arrives there, they find an abandoned, desolate town and one catatonic nine year old girl as the only survivor along with a pack of deadly, predatory wolves, acting smarter and more aggressive than any animals should be.
The film is expected to mix elements of folk horror and survival horror based on the original book.
Of course, Derrickson and Cargill are regular collaborators together working and producing all sorts of films including the recent Apple TV+ feature titled “The Gorge,” which starred Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller.
Before they get started on “Road of Bones,” Derrickson and Cargill are next set to release “The Black Phone 2,” as a follow up to the smash hit original based on a short story from Joe Hill.
H/T: Hollywood Reporter
