Apple Studios has acquired the rights to adapt Snow Blind, a thriller based on a graphic novel of the same name that will star Jake Gyllenhaal, an American actor and film producer.
The project was acquired by Apple’s head of worldwide video Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht.
Gustav Möller (“The Guilty”) will direct the film based on the story by Ollie Masters and published by BOOM! Studios in 2017. Patrick Ness (“A Monster Calls,” “Chaos Walking”) is writing the screenplay.
While the exact plot of the film adaptation hasn’t been revealed yet; Snow Blind tells the story of a high school student in Alaska whose life is turned upside down when he posts a photo of his dad online. He soon thereafter learns that he and his family are in the Witness Protection Program and are now being hunted by not only the FBI but also a man out for revenge who invades their small town.
Jake Gyllenhaal is producing along with his partner at Nine Stories, Riva Marker. BOOM! Studios’ Ross Richie, Stephen Christy and Adam Yoelin are also producing. Noah Stahl is executive producing, and Mette Norkjaer is co-producing.
Jake Gyllenhaal was last seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home; and is a producer on the indie horror film Relic that was just released.
He is also producing The Devil All the Time and Breaking News in Yuba County; which are both in post-production.
Apple has been busy of late, having just released the Tom Hanks World War II movie; Greyhound after picking it up from Sony. Apple also recently acquired the Will Smith-led Emancipation from director Antoine Fuqua, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.