Lyrical Media Acquires Reddit/NoSleep Short Story ‘Purgatory Games’; Bryan Edward Hill To Adapt For Screen
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Lyrical Media has snapped up Sam Haysom’s short story Purgatory Games which Titans and Ash vs. Evil Dead scribe Bryan Edward Hill will adapt into a feature film.
In Purgatory Games, when a mysterious narrator receives a USB drive from an unknown source containing videos and transcripts of six strangers trapped in an underground bunker with unusual rules to gain their freedom, an investigation begins into this secret, disturbing experiment.
The project has been billed as Ring meets Squid Game. The big screen take of the short story from the viral Reddit/NoSleep thread will be produced by Alex Black and Natalie Sellers on behalf of Lyrical Media with Brian Kavanaugh Jones and Fred Berger producing for Automatik.
Hill and Gemma Levinson will also serve as EPs. Hill is an African-American creator working across film, television, and comics.
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