Daniel Kraus’ survival thriller novel Whalefall, a few diver who will get swallowed by a sperm whale, has landed a movie adaptation deal
Daniel Kraus has labored with Guillermo del Toro on the novel Trollhunters, which impressed the Netflix animated sequence, and the novelization of The Form of Water. When George A. Romero left behind an unfinished novel known as The Dwelling Lifeless, Kraus was the author chosen to complete it. He has contributed a pair tales to the Shudder sequence Creepshow, a TV enlargement of the Creepshow movie Romero made with Stephen King. Now Deadline reviews that Think about Leisure has picked up the movie rights to Kraus’s novel Whalefall, which gained’t even be on retailer cabinets till August eighth. (You may pre-order a duplicate at THIS LINK.)
For the reason that writers guild is presently on strike (together with the Display screen Actors Guild), Deadline notes that “the concept right here is, in fact, to develop Whalefall for the massive display, on the level when Hollywood is once more again up and operating. No growth can be accomplished and no writing providers can be rendered right here till new guild contracts are struck.”
Whalefall is a survival thriller that’s described as “The Martian meets 127 Hours“. The brief description is that it’s a “scientifically correct thriller a few scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has just one hour to flee earlier than his oxygen runs out.” Right here’s the longer model:
Jay Gardiner has given himself a idiot’s errand – to seek out the stays of his deceased father within the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Seashore. He is aware of it’s a protracted shot, however Jay feels it’s the one method for him to raise the burden of guilt he has carried since his dad’s dying by suicide the earlier yr. The dive begins nicely sufficient, however the sudden look of a large squid places Jay in very actual jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale trying to feed. Immediately, Jay is caught within the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth the place he’s pulled into the primary of its 4 stomachs. He rapidly realizes he has just one hour earlier than his oxygen tanks run out – one hour to defeat his demons and escape the stomach of a whale. Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is an “astoundingly nice” (Gillian Flynn, New York Occasions bestselling writer) thriller a few younger man who has given up on life… solely to discover a cause to dwell in probably the most harmful and unlikely of locations.
So we’re a scientific tackle the Jonah story, which appears like an excellent time to me.
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