‘Dark Harvest’ Adaptation Finally a Go at MGM with Director David Slade
The adaptation of the highly acclaimed horror novel, Dark Harvest, is finally heading into production. Last year, director David Slade came aboard the project when it was still under New Regency. Deadline confirmed that Slade is still attached and will direct.
Dark Harvest was a 2006 novel written by Norman Partridge and is the winner of the Bram Stoker Award. Set in a small Midwestern town on Halloween in 1963. Every year the October Boy aka Ol’ Hacksaw Face aka Sawtooth Jack rises from the cornfields. With a butcher knife in his hand, he makes his way toward town, where teenage boys await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare.
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To the town, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. Pete McCormick knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future. He will risk everything, for a chance at glory and a fresh start. However, before the night is over, Pete will look into the face of horror–and discover the terrifying truth of the October Boy.
This will be the first project for the new MGM Film Group Chairman Michael De Luca. But De Luca is no stranger to the horror genre, having written and produced Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare and the TV series Freddy’s Nightmares. Like De Luca, Slade is also no stranger to horror, having directed Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and 30 Days of Night.
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