Scott Derrickson Adapting Horror Novel Road of Bones for Film

Director Scott Derrickson and writer C. Robert Cargill—aka, the dream team behind Doctor Strange and The Black Phone—are collaborating again. Their next project? An adaption of Christopher Golden’s Road of Bones.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, the duo are working on the film for Sony’s Screen Gems label. It’ll be the first movie under the production banner Crooked Highway, and will continue their ongoing partnership. Golden, who wrote the script for 2024’s Hellboy: The Crooked Man, will executive produce the film.

Released in 2022, Road of Bones is about the titular Siberian highway which stretches 1,200 miles and has -60 degree temperatures. Over 80 gulags were created along its path during Stalin’s regime, making it the perfect subject for documentary producer Felix “Teig” Teigland. During his travels with his camera operator and a local guide, Teig learns of the Road’s culture and its various people until they reach Oymyakon, the “coldest settlement on Earth.” The only person there is a young girl, and things get even weirder when a shaman commands forest spirits to hunt the trio down.

Sony hasn’t set a release date for Road of Bones, and there’s currently no casting attached. Until more information surfaces, anyone wanting a horror fix from Derrickson and Cargill can turn to The Gorge (which Cargill produced, but didn’t write) and a Black Phone sequel releasing on October 17.

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