20th Wins Bidding War For Imagine’s Survival Thriller ‘Whalefall’; Brian Duffield To Co-Write & Direct
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple studios bidding, 20th Century Studios has reeled in theatrical distribution rights to Imagine Entertainment‘s thriller Whalefall, based on the recently published novel by bestseller Daniel Kraus.
Aboard to co-write and direct the film is Brian Duffield, who has a strong relationship with 20th President Steve Asbell and his team, following their work together on the acclaimed sci-fi thriller No One Will Save You.
Imagine snapped the book up for development in a pre-emptive film rights deal last summer, as we were first to report. Published last summer by MTV Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Whalefall is described as The Martian meets 127 Hours.
The book is about a scuba diver in search of his deceased father’s remains who gets swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.
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