PARANORMAL ACTIVITY super-producer Jason Blum has teamed with Picture Shack Entertainment, the producers of “Paranormal State” (an A&E reality series that follows a group of ghost-hunters) to option the rights to FATE, a publication detailing supposedly “true” stories of the supernatural. The producing team apparently aims to adapt stories from FATE’s many issues for television and film.
FATE, originally launched in 1948 by “Amazing Stories” editor Raymond A. Palmer and Curtis Fuller, looked at first-person accounts of encounters with UFOs, monsters, ghosts, and more. While the magazine doesn’t exist anymore, there’s currently a website continuing the tradition.
From Wikipedia: Though Fate is aimed at a popular audience and tends to emphasize personal anecdotes about the paranormal, American writer and frequent Fate contributor Jerome Clark says the magazine features a substantial amount of serious research and investigation, and occasional debunking of dubious claims. Subjects of such debunking articles have included Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Amityville Horror.
It’s unclear whether Blum and his new producing partners will take these tales and spin them into fictional stories, or if they’re going to go all docu-drama style. All that is clear now is that they own the library and want to scare the crap out of us. Good enough for me at the moment!
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY’s Katie Featherston
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