Universal To Adapt Riley Sager’s Novel ‘Final Girls’ For Feature Film
Universal Pictures has obtained the rights to Riley Sager’s novel ‘Final Girls’ that was published by Dutton this past July. Praised by Stephen King, the novel has been compared to a horror version of ‘Gone Girl’. In the novel: “Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout’s knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and the man she refers to only as Him. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them and, with that, one another. Despite the media’s
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