Jason Keller Writing ‘The Passage’ For Director Matt Reeves
By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2011 4:00 pm EST
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THR has the news, but doesn’t specify whether this is a page-one rewrite or one that will jump off from the work done by John Logan for Ridley Scott.
From previous coverage, here’s info and a useful quote from the author about the book:
When a secret project to create a super-soldier backfires, a virus leads to a plague of vampiric revenants that wipes out most of the population. One of the few bands of survivors is the Colony, a FEMA-established island of safety bunkered behind massive banks of lights that repel the virals, or dracs—but a small group realizes that the aging technological defenses will soon fail. When members of the Colony find a young girl, Amy, living outside their enclave, they realize that Amy shares the virals’ agelessness, but not the virals’ mindless hunger, and they embark on a search to find answers to her condition.
Matt Reeves is also signed to direct a new film based on the story 8 O’Clock in the Morning, which was once turned into the John Carpenter film They Live, but we don’t know which of the two projects will go forward first.
A passage is a transition from one state or condition to another. The world itself makes such a transition in the book. So do all the characters—as characters in a novel must. The title is also a reference to the soul’s passage from life to death, and whatever lies in that unknown realm. Time and time again I’ve heard it, and in my own life, witnessed it: people at the end of life want to go home.
