EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has preemptively closed a deal to adapt “The Blanks,” the horror-thriller short story by genre maestro Grady Hendrix, for film.
21 Laps‘ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine will produce under the company’s longstanding creative partnership with Netflix, alongside Aperture Entertainment‘s Adam Goldworm, with Hendrix exec producing. No word yet on who will direct or script the adaptation. This is the second short story Hendrix has taken to market following “Ankle Snatcher,” which he’s been set to adapt for Sony and Escape Artists, with Aperture producing.
In The Blanks, a family returns to their vacation home on Jeckle Island, as they do every summer, settling into familiar routines and abiding by the island’s unspoken rules. But when Rachel’s son discovers a family friend collapsed and confronted by something unspeakable, the illusion of normalcy shatters — setting off a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
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