After much speculation, it has finally been confirmed that Academy Award-nominated director M. Night Shyamalan’s next film, Knock at the Cabin, will be an on-screen adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s novel, The Cabin at the End of the World. Tremblay spoke with CNBC and said his award-winning novel idea was picked up by FilmNation in 2017, but just recently found its director in Shyamalan. Shyamalan is coming off his 14th feature film, Old, which was released in 2021.
The book’s synopsis follows two men and their daughter, who, while on vacation at their summer cabin, are visited by four strangers. The visitors take them hostage and tell them that if the family doesn’t sacrifice one another, they have it on divine authority that the world will end. Though the film is set to follow the same premise, some changes are expected in the adaptation. Knock at the Cabin will be the first Hollywood adaptation for the horror writer.

The Cabin at the End of the World won the Horror Writer Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 2019, and caught the attention of many prolific horror writers, including Stephen King. In 2020, Tremblay released Survivor Song, a novel about a world-ending virus that some say acts as a spiritual sequel to both The Cabin at the End of the World and Disappearance at Devil’s Rock. Tremblay’s most recent book, The Pallbearers Club, released on July 5, 2022.
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Knock at the Cabin will star Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Alrdige, and Rupert Grint, who previously worked with Shyamalan on the AppleTV+ show, The Servant. Knock at the Cabin is slated for release on February 3rd, 2023, from Universal Pictures.