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James Cameron to Adapt Joe Abercrombie’s Bestselling ‘The Devils’ into Film

The project has moved into early screenplay development under Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.

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Overview

  • Cameron announced via social media that Lightstorm Entertainment secured the film rights to Abercrombie’s horror-fantasy novel.
  • He is co-writing the screenplay with Abercrombie as the adaptation enters its scriptwriting phase.
  • The Devils follows a librarian, a werewolf, a knight and a vampire uniting against bloodthirsty elves in an alternate-history setting.
  • Since its May 6 release, the novel has topped The Sunday Times Bestseller list in the UK and reached the New York Times top five.
  • This marks Cameron’s first horror project since 1982 and follows his completion of Avatar: Fire and Ash, with no release date yet set.