EXCLUSIVE: ACE Entertainment has optioned TV rights to New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young‘s In Nightfall, a young adult horror novel that was sought after by a number of production companies, sources tell Deadline.
Manager Paul Kim and VP of Television Kendyll Boucher will serve as exec producers of the small-screen adaptation, we’re told.
Billed as a gender-swapped Lost Boys, or The Lost Boys meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer, In Nightfall was published by Penguin Random House/Delacorte Press in March 2023, going viral on X and being springboarded into the publishing zeitgeist when no one showed up to the author’s book launch in Tempe, Arizona.
The book takes place in the quaint town of Nightfall, Oregon, where it isn’t the dark you should be afraid of — it’s the girls.
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