David Lowery, who wrote and directed The Green Knight as well as Pete’s Dragon and many other projects (the most recent being Mother Mary) is setting his sights on adapting the 2016 Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, written by John Langan.
Here’s the blurb of the book, per Goodreads:
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It’s a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the news, Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Alex Ginno from the production company Platinum Dunes are backing the project, along with writer Gary Dauberman (It, the Annabelle films) and Mia Maniscalco from Coin Operated.
The project is still in its early days, so no news yet on casting or if/when it will make its way to a screen near you. In the meantime, pick up the book for a (re)read!
