Back in 2011 New Regency optioned Michael Koryta's thriller So Cold the River for film. At the time, the author had planned to write the adapted screenplay himself but now we're learning that Ben Coccio — who is the co-writer of the upcoming Ryan Gosling-Bradley Cooper crime thriller The Place Beyond the Pines — will write the script.
So Cold the River is one of but three Kortya novels in various stages of film development; the others are The Cypress House and The Prophet.
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So Cold the River
Michael Koryta
It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to the man's past — just the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he's kept his entire life.
In Bradford's hometown, Eric discovers an extraordinary history — a glorious domed hotel where movie stars, presidents, athletes, and mobsters once mingled, and hot springs whose miraculous mineral water cured everything from insomnia to malaria. Neglected for years, the resort has been restored to its former grandeur just in time for Eric's stay.
Just hours after his arrival, Eric experiences a frighteningly vivid vision. As the days pass, the frequency and intensity of his hallucinations increase and draw Eric deeper into the town's dark history. He discovers that something besides the hotel has been restored — a long-forgotten evil that will stop at nothing to regain its lost glory.
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