The Black Phone and Sinister director Scott Derrickson is teaming up with his wife and fellow filmmaker Maggie Levin (My Valentine) for an adaptation of Clay McLeod Chapman‘s 2022 horror novel Ghost Eaters.
Reporting the news earlier today, The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Screen Gems, which has a first-look with Derrickson’s Crooked Highway banner, is behind the project, with Levin writing and directing. Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill and Vince Cheng will develop and produce via Crooked Highway. Per THR, Ghost Eaters is in early development.
Ghost Eaters follows a group of friends who discover a drug called Ghost, which allows them to see the dead. But Ghost has unfathomable side effects, and as the book jacket says, once you take it, you can never go back.
Upon release, Ghost Eaters received praise from critics and fans alike, being named one of Vulture‘s best horror novels of 2022, Paste’s best horror books of 2022, Book Riot’s best horror novels of 2022, and Crime Reads’ best horror fiction books of the same year.
Ghost Eaters will join 2015's The Boy and Henry Selick's 2022 stop-motion horror Wendell & Wild as feature-length Chapman adaptations to hit the big screen.
Look out for more on Levin and Derrickson's Ghost Eaters as we get it!
