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Paramount Primal Developing Film Adaptation Of Nick Cutter Horror Novel ‘The Troop’ From Screenwriter Chris Basler

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Primal, the studio’s new genre label led by J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, has acquired rights to The Troop, the 2014 horror novel by Nick Cutter, enlisting Chris Basler to pen the feature adaptation. The Troop follows a troop of boys who, while on their annual scout camping trip, encounter an intruder who unleashes something far […]

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Paramount Primal Developing Film Adaptation Of Nick Cutter Horror Novel ‘The Troop’ From Screenwriter Chris Basler
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