Blumhouse, a name synonymous with horror, has optioned the film rights for Boom! Studios’ werewolf graphic novel, Curse, by Michael Moreci and Tim Daniel, Heat Vision reports.
The story centers on a widowed father who is desperate and financially broken from trying to save his child from a rare disease. Seizing the opportunity to claim a reward offered from the capture of a killer in his rural community, he inadvertently captures a wolf. The question then becomes whether the lycan will be the broken family’s reluctant savior or its final destroyer.
Boom! Studios’ Ross Richie and Stephen Christy will produce with Adam Yoelin serving as executive producer.Jason Blum and Couper Samuelson will produce under the Blumhouse banner.