Penchant Entertainment has announced that they have picked up all film and TV rights to the critically-acclaimed New York Times and Amazon bestselling book Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans by Father Malachi Martin with plans for film and series adaptation, each focusing on different elements from the source material.
The multiple projects based on the book will be produced by Erin Eggers, Chase Hudson and Matthew Porter for Penchant.
After moving to New York in 1965, Martin began to focus extensively on demonic Possession and assisted in nearly a dozen Exorcisms before beginning his work on Hostage to the Devil.
In Hostage to the Devil, Martin presents a chilling and thoroughly-researched analysis of demonic possession and the Rite of Exorcism, offering rich new details on the practice and its participants, never explored on screen.