Following an intense bidding war among six major studios, Deadline brings word Apple has successfully won the rights to Jake Gyllenhaal’s thriller film adaptation of Snow Blind, based on Ollie Masters and Tyler Jenkins’ graphic novel of the same name.
The film is currently being pitched as Prisoners, the Oscar-nominated thriller starring Gyllenhaal, mixed with Running on Empty, with BOOM!
The project has also found its director in the form of Sweden-born director Gustav Möller (The Guilty) who has signed on to helm his first-ever English-language film.
Studios’ Ross Richie and Stephen Christy, Mett Norkjaer, and Nine Stories’ Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker attached to produce.