{"id":109459,"date":"2019-08-13T12:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=109459"},"modified":"2019-08-13T12:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:32:45","slug":"james-wans-atomic-monster-acquires-rights-to-horror-novel-the-troop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/james-wans-atomic-monster-acquires-rights-to-horror-novel-the-troop\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wan&#8217;s Atomic Monster acquires rights to horror novel The Troop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Wan&#8217;s production company Atomic Monster is gearing up to adapt YA horror novel\u00a0<em><strong>The Troop<\/strong><\/em> after acquiring the rights, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/08\/james-wans-atomic-monster-acquires-nick-cutters-the-troop-e-l-katz-set-to-direct-1202666443\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The novel, written by author Nick Cutter, is described as a cross between\u00a0<em><strong>28 Days Later<\/strong><\/em> and William Golding&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Lord Of The Flies<\/strong><\/em>. It follows a group of teenagers who must fend for themselves when the adult chaperone of their remote camping trip succumbs to an aggressive otherworldly virus.<\/p>\n<p>EL Katz, the director of\u00a0<em><strong>Cheap Thrills<\/strong><\/em>, is set to helm the film, and will be working from a screenplay by Noah Gardner and Aidan Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p>Wan is producing through his Atomic Monster banner alongside JS Entertainment and Starlight Media, with Michael Clean also serving as a producer and Judson Scott overseeing things. The film is yet to set a cast or a release date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest horror news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Wan&#8217;s Atomic Monster is making a film of YA horror novel The Troop by Nick Cutter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":109460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[6558],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-13-at-12.31.33.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}