On the same day of its debut, Scott Free Productions has acquired the rights to Lawrence Wright’s pandemic novel The End of October with the studio looking to adapt it for either a film or TV series with Ridley Scott (The Last Duel) being eyed to potentially direct, according to Deadline.
The novel focuses on Henry Parsons, a microbiologist and epidemiologist, who travels to an internment camp in Indonesia on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate the death of 47 people from acute hemorrhagic fever.
The idea for the novel reportedly came to Wright roughly six years ago from Scott when the Golden Globe winner asked Wright if a societal breakdown in an apocalyptic even could actually happen after having read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
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