German production houses All In and Studio Babelsberg are teaming up to bring us an adaptation of EREBOS, which will be an adaptation of the cyber-horror book by Ursula Poznanski. The two companies are now in the process of finding a U.S. studio to partner with. No screenwriter or director has been announced as of yet.
EREBOS centers on a mysterious and highly addictive computer game that begins to take control of its players. Set in a London school, the story follows a teen who tries to uncover the secret behind Erebos and save his fellow students from a game of life and death.
Anexpanded synopsis: Erebos – a mysterious computer game which is handed around from one student to another. The game has strict rules: Do not tell anybody that you know about the game, do not tell anybody that you are playing the game and do not tell anybody your nickname. Erebos seems to be an intelligent game which knows everything about its players, their fears, preferences and their desires. One day the sixteen years old Nick also starts to play the game. Quite soon the game turns out to be highly addictive, and even more so because there is apparently no way to stop the game when you want to – it‘s the game itself that “decides” when it is time for a break…
Erebos starts to take over the players‘ real lives, by assigning seemingly harmless and unconnected tasks to each player. But then Erebos tells Nick to do something illegal and when he doesn‘t comply is thrown out of the game. Suspicious, he starts thinking what‘s behind Erebos and decides to search for the person who holds all the strings. Emily, a friend from school helps him… strange things happen and the border between reality and virtual reality begins to disappear…
Been a while since we’ve had a doozy of a cyber thriller, so maybe EREBOS will fill the void. We’ll keep you updated as production revs up.