MGM is teaming with filmmaker David Slade (“Hannibal,” “30 Days of Night”) on a film adaptation of Norman Partridge’s acclaimed 2007 novel “Dark Harvest,” the studio picking up the project from New Regency.
The story is set during Halloween of 1963 in a small Midwestern town where teenage boys eagerly square off with the butcher knife-wielding October Boy who is the prize in an annual rite of life and death.
One teen, Pete McCormick, knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future, but by night’s end he will look into the saw-toothed face of horror – and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy.
Michael Gilio is penning the script while Michael De Luca, Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl are producing.
Source: Deadline
