Doctor Strange and The Black Phone director Scott Derrickson is co-writing with screenwriter C. Robert Cargill another spine-chilling (heavy on the 'chilling') terror, Road of Bones. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will adapt the 2022 horror novel of the same name, which focuses on an actual location in Siberia steeped in folklore and terror.
The original book written by Christopher Golden, follows a historian who heads to Siberia on the Kolyma Highway, a road paved in a dark history surrounding its makers. Prisoners laid the 2000 km road during the Stalinist Soviet Union era, but due to permafrost, thousands of inmates died on the job, resulting in the road actually being made over them in an effort to cover it up. The unfortunate historian who dares to go out on the highway is greeted by unfathomable horrors and at risk of being stuck on the road forever, forgotten like all the rest.
