With Mother Mary out in the world earlier this year, David Lowery has set his next directorial project: adapting the award-winning, supernatural horror novel The Fisherman from author John Langan, for Focus Features.

Lowery, who was also behind Arthurian fantasy The Green Knight, is co-writing the film adaptation with Alex Ross Perry. Producers include Michael Bay and Brad Fuller for Platinum Dunes, and Gary Dauberman and Mia Maniscalco for Coin Operated.

Per the novel’s official synopsis: “In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true.

“When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours of the Creek and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss them. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir.

“It’s a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.”

The adaptation of The Fisherman appears in good hands, considering the production companies attached, Platinum Dunes and Coin Operated, are also behind projects like the Quiet Place films and The Curse of la Llorona, respectively.