Aperture Entertainment Adapting Mason Coile Thriller Novel ‘William’; Justin Dyck To Direct
Exclusive: Aperture Entertainment has optioned rights to bestselling author Andrew Pyper’s recently published novel William, with Justin Dyck set to direct.
Penned under Pyper’s sci-fi/thriller pen name Mason Coile, William hit store shelves September 3 via Putnam.
The author and Chris Sivertson will adapt the novel as a thriller to be shot in Canada.
A contained sci-fi horror film that blends the worlds of Ex Machina and The Amityville Horror, William is set in a timely haunted house story in which the haunting is AI.
The New York Times Book Review praised the novel, calling it “a cyber-horror tale that combines cerebrality and carnage … a twist on The Shining in which the house is haunted by a ghost in the machine. … Coile [elevates the genre] with meticulously unsettling prose and a knowing dissection of character that transcends stereotype.”
Pyper is the internationally bestselling author of 11 novels including The Demonologist,...
Penned under Pyper’s sci-fi/thriller pen name Mason Coile, William hit store shelves September 3 via Putnam.
The author and Chris Sivertson will adapt the novel as a thriller to be shot in Canada.
A contained sci-fi horror film that blends the worlds of Ex Machina and The Amityville Horror, William is set in a timely haunted house story in which the haunting is AI.
The New York Times Book Review praised the novel, calling it “a cyber-horror tale that combines cerebrality and carnage … a twist on The Shining in which the house is haunted by a ghost in the machine. … Coile [elevates the genre] with meticulously unsettling prose and a knowing dissection of character that transcends stereotype.”
Pyper is the internationally bestselling author of 11 novels including The Demonologist,...
- 10/9/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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