Landon To Direct 'Final Girl Support Group' At Paramount
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- Paramount Pictures is developing a feature film of Grady Hendrix's novel 'The Final Girl Support Group,' with Christopher Landon set to adapt and direct the project.
- Christopher Landon most recently directed Blumhouse's 'Drop' for Universal and previously wrote and directed across Paramount's Paranormal Activity franchise and the Happy Death Day series.
- The novel was previously set up at HBO Max as a series with Charlize Theron attached under Denver and Delilah Films; Theron is no longer involved, but Andy and Barbara Muschietti remain producing under Double Dream.
- Adam Goldworm's Aperture Entertainment, which reps Hendrix, continues to produce; Goldworm is also producing 'Hannibal' at Netflix with Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua.
- Hendrix will executive produce the film; the novel won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel of 2021 and sits on the New York Times bestseller list.
- Paramount is also separately developing Hendrix's novella 'Bad Asstronauts' with Todd Garner and Goldworm attached to produce.
Why it matters: For Paramount, the project adds another Landon-helmed horror play to a slate where he already wrote and directed across the Paranormal Activity and Happy Death Day franchises. The format shift from HBO Max series to Paramount feature — with Theron detached — reframes the property as a single-event slasher homage rather than a serialized adaptation, while cementing Aperture's Goldworm as the connective tissue across nearly every major horror packaging deal in town.
