Author Grady Hendrix's horror novel The Final Girl Support Group won't be published by Berkley, a division of Penguin Random House, until July 13, 2021, but Annapurna has already picked up the rights to produce a television series based on the story.
Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, co-creators of ABC's legal drama series The Fix, are writing the pilot script. The Final Girl Support Group is said to be "both an homage to and subversion of iconic slasher films", a fresh take on the sub-genre that will also capture "the cultural zeitgeist around true crime stories".
What is sure to make genre fans especially interested in both Hendrix's novel and the TV show is the fact that characters in this story were clearly inspired by some very familiar final girls – the synopsis mentions stand-ins for survivors from TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, FRIDAY THE 13TH, HALLOWEEN, and NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET films:
The women in the Final Girl Support Group have been in therapy together for decades – ever since one was attacked by a cannibal family in Texas, by a machete wielding maniac at summer camp, by an older brother who returned to settle scores on Halloween, by a lunatic who allegedly entered their dreams. These are the middle-aged survivors of the real-life crimes the slasher movies are based on. Some of them are addicts, some are in denial, and some have become motivational speakers. And now the final girls are mysteriously dying, one by one.
Hendrix will be executive producing the TV show with Annapurna's Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, and Patrick Chu, as well as Aperture Entertainment's Adam Goldworm.
I'll be keeping a close eye on this one. It will be very interesting to see who ends up playing these variations on final girls we know and love.
In addition to his novels, Hendrix has also written the screenplays for SATANIC PANIC (watch it HERE) and MOHAWK (watch that one HERE).
I've been working on this book since 2013, trying to sum up everything that horror means to me, why there's more to it than murder, and why it gives me hope. So it's really nice to see good things happen to it.https://t.co/yZpGVeO3uG
— Grady Hendrix (@grady_hendrix) November 16, 2020
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