Matt Reeves to adapt The Passage, the vampire apocalypse tale with a heart
Even those weary of vampires, apocalypses, and vampire apocalypses found reason to enjoy Justin Cronin’s The Passage, 2010’s popular beach read that couched a worn-out genre in literary pretensions—even though many were divided on whether it achieved them or not. What most could agree on, however, was that the book seemed crafted explicitly for an inevitable movie adaptation, especially seeing as Fox snapped up the movie rights in 2007 before Cronin had even finished writing the thing. And now that the novel has officially become a hit, the studio is finally moving forward on its investment, hiring Matt Reeves to direct the story of a world nearly wiped out by telepathic vampires and the young girl who may hold the secret to stopping them.