Acclaimed director Jeremy Saulnier, the filmmaker behind last year’s thriller Blue Ruin, is set to helm Hold The Dark, adapting the novel by William Giraldi.
Saulnier has become one of Hollywood’s hottest indie directors after the success of Blue Ruin and his debut Murder Party, as well as his latest film Green Room, which stars Patrick Stewart. Now it looks like he will take on the adaptation of Giraldi’s novel which is said to be “a cross between Prisoners and The Revenant.”
The novel tells the story of “a child taken from his village by a pack of wolves, and an expert hunter summoned to track and destroy them. His mission leads him down an increasingly dark and shocking path as he confronts the cruelty of nature and his own failures. With the child’s grief-crazed father closing in behind him and a fierce, unforgiving landscape ahead, it becomes increasingly unclear who is really being hunted.”
Green Room, which sees a young rock band trapped in a venue after witnessing a violent act involving neo-Nazis, debuted to critical acclaim at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and features as part of next month’s London Film Festival.
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Originally published September 25, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.
