Green Room, the uber violent and ultra stylish 2016 horror film, was one of last year’s best received movies of the genre, and now it’s been revealed that director Jeremy Saulnier will helm his next movie for streaming giant Netflix.
The film which is titled Hold the Dark, will apparently be another bloody and tense thriller in a similar vein as Green Room and the director’s breakthrough flick, Blue Ruin.
The Calgary Herald had the scoop on the Alaska set movie, noting that shooting will begin on February 27th of this year. Previously Saulnier’s films have been original works but Hold the Dark will be an adaptation of William Giraldi’s 2014 novel.
The synopsis for Giraldi’s book is as follows:
Written with “force and precision and grace” (John Wilwol, New York Times Book Review) Hold the Dark is a “taut and unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness” (Dennis Lehane). At the start of another pitiless winter, wolves have taken three children from the remote Alaskan village of Keelut, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core is called in to investigate these killings and discovers an unholy truth harbored by Medora before she disappears. When her husband returns home to discover his boy dead and his wife missing, he begins a maniacal pursuit that cuts a bloody swath across the frozen landscape. With the help of a local police detective, Core attempts to find Medora before her husband does, setting in motion a deadly chain of events in this “chilling, mysterious, and completely engaging novel” (Tim O’Brien) that marks the arrival of a major American writer.
There is no official cast yet for Hold the Dark but we do know that Netflix is behind the project and shooting will take place n Alberta, Canada and Morroco.
Originally published January 26, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
