The Craving: Real-world addiction series being fast-tracked at Netflix

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Netflix is putting a new thriller drama series on the fast track called The Craving. It hails from director Adam Robitel (Escape Room) and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension writer Gavin Heffernan. Set to explore the real-world horrors of addiction, The Craving will be executive produced by the duo alongside Darren Aronofsky and Elizabeth Gesas of Protozoa Pictures. The story revolves around a female sheriff in a Colorado ski town besieged by an unprecedented new threat.

Robitel and Heffernan have already written the pilot and plan to set up a writers' room to flesh out the first season. Robitel will direct the pilot and is game for filming other episodes as well. Robitel just finished shooting Escape Room: Tournament of Champions for Sony. In the sequel to Robitel's 2019 horror film, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive. Joining forces with two of the original survivors, they soon discover they've all played the game before.

More recently, Robitel wrapped filming for Insidious: The Dark Realm, which is now in post-production. As the fifth installment of the Insidious horror film series, The Dark Realm depicts what happens when a demonic entity attempts to unleash chaos into the world of the living.

With addiction remaining an ever-present threat, it should be interesting to see how Robitel and Heffernan approach this hot-button subject matter.

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions is scheduled for release on July 16, 2021.