EXCLUSIVE: Mammoth Pictures has acquired film and TV rights to the bestselling novella Diary of a Murderer from award-winning Korean author Young-ha Kim.
The company’s Creative Director Kourosh Ahari (The Night, Parallel) is set to direct an English-language feature adaptation, marking the first production under the deal, from a script by Henry Chaisson (Searchlight’s Antlers, Apple TV+’s Servant).Diary of a Murderer tells the story of a former serial killer stricken with Alzheimer’s disease and suffering from escalating memory loss.
When his now peaceful life with his daughter is threatened by new killings mimicking his murders of decades past, he sets his sights on one final kill before he loses his memory completely: the new serial killer he suspects is stalking his daughter – all told in a series of notes the narrator writes to himself throughout his psychological descent into dementia.Kim’s novella was previously adapted by Korean director Shin-yeon Won as Memoir of a Murder—not to be confused with Bong Joon Ho’s 2003 feature Memories of Murder—a film distributed by Well Go USA Entertainment, which grossed over $19M worldwide upon its September 2017 release.
Alex Bretow and Alexis Brontë will produce the new feature adaptation for Mammoth Pictures.Kim has also penned such novels as I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Why, Arang, Black Flower, Your Republic Is Calling You, Quiz Show and I Hear Your Voice, along with assorted essays and short stories.
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