Following on from Tracy Wolff’s Crave being picked up by Universal Pictures earlier this week, now comes word on another horror novel being adapted for the big screen.

Via Deadline, Norman Partridge’s Dark Harvest is being turned into a movie by MGM. And not just that, but 30 Days of Night and Hannibal’s David Slade will be on directing duties for a film that’s currently pegged for a September 24th, 2021 release. Michael Gilio – recently tasked with penning 2021’s Dungeons & Dragons – is to write the picture.

The official synopsis for Dark Harvest reads:

The book is set during Halloween of 1963 in a small Midwestern town where teenage boys eagerly square off with a butcher knife wielding October Boy, aka Ol’ Hacksaw Face, aka Sawtooth Jack.

Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. One teen, Pete McCormick, knows that killing the October Boy is his one chance to escape a dead-end future in the one-horse town. But before the night is over, Pete will look into the saw-toothed face of horror – and discover the terrifying true secret of the October Boy.

Expect more on this adaptation of Dark Harvest as we get it.