Last year, Legendary Entertainment had acquired the rights to the latest Bigfoot novel – Devolution, written by World War Z author Max Brooks. A director for the film adaptation was finally selected this week.
James Ashcroft, director of Coming Home in the Dark is set to direct the movie, according to THR. THR also added that Ashcroft will refine the storey with his writing partner Eli Kent.
The #1 bestselling author of World War Z takes on the Bigfoot mythology with a tale that blurs the lines between human and beast—and asks what we are capable of in the face of the unimaginable in Devolution: A First-hand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre.
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The ash and commotion from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and settled and the story of the Greenloop slaughter went undetected and uninvestigated… until today. However, a story too harrowing and too earth-shattering in its implications, is captured in the notebooks of local inhabitant Kate Holland, which were retrieved from the town’s grisly devastation.
Max Brooks carefully reproduces Kate’s astounding tale alongside his own lengthy investigations into the atrocity and the fabled creatures behind it in these pages.He brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time. Kate’s story is one of astonishing strength and tenacity, defiance in the face of a terrifying predator, and, of course, savagery and death.
However, it is much more than that. Because if what Kate Holland observed back then was real, we’ll have to accept the unthinkable. We must acknowledge that the ape-like creature known as Bigfoot exists, and that it is a beast of incredible strength and ferocity.
This is a Bigfoot story like none you’ve ever read, part survival story, part bloody horror story, and a scientific trip into the limits between truth and fiction, as only Max Brooks could tell it.
We can’t wait to see what Ashcroft comes up with!
