Prolific screenwriter and playwright John Logan just closed a seven-figure deal with Fox 2000 to adapt The Passage, the Jordan Ainsley vampire novel being taken on by Ridley Scott. Scott may direct the film, which designates first collaboration for Scott and Logan since the Oscar-winning Gladiator.
The story is about terminally ill patients who become healthy after they are bitten by bats in South America. The government conducts secret tests on human subjects to see if the virus can cure illness in general. The result is an apocalyptic unleashing of bloodthirsty vampire test subjects that include death row inmates.
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