Fox Names Director for Film Adaptation of The Passage by Justin Cronin

Fox 2000 is moving forward with its film adaptation of The Passage, the first book in an expected trilogy of thrillers by Justin Cronin, with the naming of Matt Reeves as director. The studio acquired the rights to the book prior to its publication in 2010.

The Passage is the story of Amy — abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl — and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape — but he can't stop society's collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.

(Source: Deadline|New York)

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