In an exclusive today, Deadline have reported that Nick Cutter’s ‘part horror, part psychological nightmare‘ novel The Deep has a series adaptation in the works from Amazon, with Antlers writer C. Henry Chaisson set to direct.
Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel) will executive produce alongside Bosch exec producers Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate.
Published in 2015 by Simon & Schuster, The Deep‘s plot reads as follows:
Set in the near future, The Deep centers on a research station at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where a miraculous discovery signals a new hope for humanity – but secrets unearthed on the ocean floor might hold devastating consequences for the world above.
The King of horror fiction himself described his experience with The Deep as one that ‘scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down […] old-school horror at its best’, while the similarly iconic Clive Barker described it as ‘utterly terrifying’.
The Deep‘s subject matter is eerily prescient, revolving around a plague that is destroying the world’s population. In an interview with Paul Semel, author Cutter describes ‘[wanting] readers to feel uneasy from the first page, the first line, and to escalate that sense from there. When you’re writing horror, that’s kind of your job.’
Further details such as casting or release dates are at the time of writing yet to be revealed.
