I’ve said before that I’m an avid reader but the novels I like are mostly political thriller or mystery conspiracy, something that would keep me to my seat and get that adrenaline pumping, a story that would make me lose my sleep because I want to know what the hell’s going to happen in the next page. I’ve never really gotten myself into reading suspense/horror novels mainly because I’d rather watch the adaptation on the big screen, it’s more fun that way but this particular title, I think is a must-read.
According to Variety, director David Slade, who recently got hired by Summit to helm ECLIPSE, has also been hired by Madrid and Paris-based Kanzaman to direct another adaptation titled COLD SKIN based on the best selling Spanish novel by author Albert Sanchez Pinol. The screenplay is written by Jesus Olmo.
No word yet on whether this movie would be English spoken or Foreign Language film. I think they should keep it Spanish like The Orphanage.
Producer Denise O’Dell thinks Slade is the right man for this job because Slade knows a thing or two about handling psychological horror (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night)
I for one am intrigued by the synopsis of the book..
“Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a “weather official” on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At first adversaries, the two find that their tenuous partnership may be the only way they survive the unspeakably horrific reptilian creatures that ravage the island at night, attacking the lighthouse in their organized effort to find warm-blooded food. Armed with a battery of ammunition and explosives, the weather official and his new ally must confront their increasingly murderous mentality, and, when the possibility of a kind of truce presents itself, decide what kind of island they will inhabit. Equal parts Stephen King, a phantasmagorical Robinson Crusoe, and Lord of the Flies, Cold Skin is literary horror that deals with the basist forms of human behavior imaginable, while exploring why we so vehemently fear the Other.”
