EXCLUSIVE: Opening entertainment has optioned the rights to author Andrew Pyper’s recently published bestselling novel William, with Justin Dyck (Coffin Girls, anything for Jackson) is configured to direct.
Written under the sci-fi/thriller pseudonym Pyper Mason’s Coil, William available on store shelves September 3 via Putnam.
The author and Chris Sivertson will adapt the novel into a thriller filmed in Canada.
A sci-fi horror film that mixes worlds Old machine And Amityville Horror, William set in a topical haunted house story where the haunting is AI.
That New York Times Book Review praised the novel, calling it “a cyber-horror story that combines ingenuity and carnage…a twist The one who shines where the house is haunted by a ghost in a machine. …Coile (elevated the genre) with deeply disturbing prose and character dissections that transcended stereotypes.
Pyper is the author of 11 internationally bestselling novels, including Demonologist, winner of the International Thriller Writers Prize. The original series sounds like a success Fortune teller is being adapted into a one-hour drama series by Amazon MGM Studios with 3 Arts Entertainment.
Canadian director Dyck is in pre-production coffin girl starring Gabrielle Union with financing from QC Entertainment. Dyck is also improving Welcome to the neighborhood on Amazon with Platinum Dunes production.
Sivertson wrote Your imagestarring Sasha Pieterse, based on the bestselling novel by Adele Parks. He has also written and directed genre films, including Giant with Christine Ricci; All the cheerleaders diewhich premiered at TIFF Midnight Madness; and its adaptation of Jack Ketchum Missing.
Adam the Golden CaterpillarBoutique management production company Aperture Entertainment is renowned for adapting the genre’s intellectual property into powerful packages. Aperture has produced several Grady Hendrix feature film adaptations, including Ankle thief at Sony, How to sell a haunted house in Legendary, horror at the New Republic and the independent production of the graphic novel by Ezra Claytan Daniels Improve the mind. On the TV side, Aperture develops Hendrix Final Girls Support Group with director Andy Muschietti and producer Charlize Theron in an HBO Max series and adaptation of Image’s hit comic book series Evidence on Fox with Westbrook. Goldworm previously produced the bestselling independent adaptation of Derf Backderf’s award-winning graphic novel. My friend Dahmer.
Pyper is repped by UTA and Kirby Kim at Janklow & Nesbit. Dyck is repped by WME, Aperture Entertainment and attorney Ashley Silver. Sivertson is repped by Aperture and Jerry Dasti at Sloss Eckhouse.
Aperture is represented by attorney Ashley Silver at Brecheen, Feldman, Breimer, Silver & Thompson.
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