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Aperture Entertainment Adapting Mason Coile Thriller Novel ‘William’; Justin Dyck To Direct


Aperture Entertainment has optioned Andrew Pyper's thriller novel 'William', Justin Dyck is directing.

The New York Times Book Review praised the novel calling it “a cyber-horror tale that combines cerebrality and carnage…a twist on The Shining in which the house is haunted by a ghost in the machine… Coile [elevates the genre] with meticulously unsettling prose and a knowing dissection of character that transcends stereotype.” He has also written and directed numerous genre films including Monstrous starring Christine Ricci, and All Cheerleaders Die, which premiered at TIFF Midnight Madness, and his critically acclaimed adaptation of Jack Ketchum’s The Lost. Aperture is producing several Grady Hendrix feature adaptations including Ankle Snatcher at Sony, How to Sell a Haunted House at Legendary, Horrorstor at New Republic, and an indie production of Ezra Claytan Daniels’ graphic novel Upgrade Soul.

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