Matt Reeves – the director behind Let Me In – has been tapped to develop and direct Fox 2000’s The Passage, an adaptation of a novel by Justin Cronin, that has Ridley Scott attached to produce, according to THR. The studio picked up the rights for The Passage and two possible sequels in a reported seven-figure deal in 2007.
The Passage, originally published in 2009, is set a hundred years in the future, where a government experiment to lengthen the human life span goes wrong, unleashing a virus that physically and psychologically transforms people into vampires.
John Logan wrote the script for The Passage when Ridley Scott was circling the director’s chair. Reeves, who wrote Let Me In and co-created Felicity with JJ Abrams, will oversee the rewrite when a new scriptwriter is brought in.
Last week Reeves signed on to write and direct an adaptation of the sci-fi short story 8 O’Clock in the Morning, which was the inspiration of the 1980s John Carpenter cult classic They Live. Universal and Strike Entertainment are teaming up on that film.
