The Mummy 4’s Radio Silence is developing a new horror movie for 20th Century Studios. The project is the first major screen translation of popular interactive books that sold over 250 million copies globally.
Radio Silence is developing movie based on Choose Your Own Adventure books
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who make up Radio Silence alongside Chad Villella, will direct and produce the feature, Deadline reported. Tom Bissell, known for Andor and The Disaster Artist, is handling the script. The studio has not yet revealed what the film will actually be about.
However, the upcoming movie draws from the gamebook series that launched in 1979 with The Cave of Time. Author Edward Packard came up with the idea while making up bedtime stories for his daughters, letting them decide which path the tale would take. What started at home became a publishing sensation.
R.A. Montgomery helped land Choose Your Own Adventure at Bantam Books just as the publisher was building its young readers division. Between 1997 and 1999, over 184 titles hit shelves from different writers. Stories spanned everything from ocean trenches to distant galaxies, with the reader cast as the hero making choices that shaped the ending. Montgomery and his wife, Shannon Gilligan, later took over through their company, Chooseco, in 2003.
Netflix borrowed the mechanics for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which let viewers click through decisions and see where they landed. Radio Silence now faces the puzzle of translating that choose-your-path experience into a linear movie.
The directing team comes with strong credentials. They helmed the Scream reboot and Scream VI. Their horror flick Abigail landed with Universal earlier this year, and Ready or Not before that became a cult favourite for Searchlight. Alongside this new project, they are set to direct The Mummy 4, bringing Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz back to the franchise.
Fans will have to wait for more details on the upcoming movie based on Choose Your Own Adventure books.
