Overview
- Focus Features acquired the film package for John Langan's 2016 novel The Fisherman and attached David Lowery to direct in a report published Tuesday.
- Lowery will co-write the screenplay with filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, according to industry coverage drawing on reporting from The Hollywood Reporter.
- Producers on the project include Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Alex Ginno at Platinum Dunes plus Gary Dauberman and Mia Maniscalco at Coin Operated, bringing recent studio horror experience.
- The studio declined to comment and no release date or production start has been announced, leaving the project in early development.
- The novel won the Bram Stoker Award and centers on two widowers who encounter a supernatural site called Dutchman’s Creek, a theme that aligns with Lowery's past work on grief and memory and may shape the film's tone.