Published Jul 30, 2026, 7:31 PM EDT
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Adaptations continue to prove hugely popular. Earlier this year, Ryan Gosling’s new sci-fi masterpiece Project Hail Mary, an adaptation of the 2021 novel by Andy Weir, earned $682 million worldwide and widespread acclaim, even being called the “first great film of 2026” in a 9/10 review from Collider’s Ross Bonaime. On the small screen, adaptations also reign supreme, with it recently documented that I Will Find You, the latest Netflix adaptation of a **Harlan Coben **novel and the streamer’s 13th thus far, scored a place among Netflix’s 10 most-popular English-language TV series of all time with 101.9 million views.
So what’s next on the adaptation agenda? It was recently revealed by Deadline that Grady Hendrix’s book The Final Girl Support Group, which won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel of 2021, was getting the big-screen treatment courtesy of Paramount Pictures. This comes after HBO had initially set up plans for a streaming series based on the novel, with The Odyssey’s **Charlize Theron *attached. Now, the adaptation has instead moved to Paramount, with Hendrix’s New York Times *bestseller one of his most famous novels. The writer has also penned the likes of Horrorstör, We Sold Our Souls, and How To Sell a Haunted House.
So, who is attached to direct this horror novel with a 3.49 rating on GoodReads? That privilege is being handed to Christopher Landon, a prolific horror director who most recently directed the mystery thriller ***Drop and wrote and produced the rom-com slasher Heart Eyes ***in 2025, with the latter earning a sequel. Landon was also part of several films in the *Paranormal Activity *franchise, and is also known for writing and directing the Happy Death Day franchise, which has a third movie in development.
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
Landon has already produced one of Hendrix’s novels, teaming up with writer Jenna Lamia and director Damon Thomas on 2022’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism. Made for Prime Video and released in September 2022, this supernatural horror comedy was based on Hendrix’s 2016 novel of the same name and starred Elsie Fisher, who is best known as the voice of Agnes in the ***Despicable Me ***franchise.
An adaptation of *The Final Girl Support Group *is in the works. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates, and check out *My Best Friend’s Exorcism *on Prime Video.
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