Archive · 28 Aug 2026
Paramount Primal Develops Horror Film Adaptation Of The Troop
Paramount is developing a scary movie called The Troop.
It will be based on a horror book by Nick Cutter.
The book was published in 2014.
The story is about boys on a scout camping trip.
An intruder brings something dangerous to their campsite.
The boys must try to survive as fear spreads.
Some of them become infected and turn against one another.
Chris Basler will write the movie, and Lyrical Media will help produce it.
Paramount Primal acquired the rights to Nick Cutter’s 2014 horror novel The Troop.
Chris Basler has been hired to write the feature-film adaptation.
The story follows boys whose scout camping trip becomes a fight for survival after an intruder arrives.
Lyrical Media is set to produce the film, with Tracy Rosenblum overseeing it for Paramount Primal.
The project is part of Paramount Primal’s slate of genre productions, which includes a new A Nightmare on Elm Street film.
- Who
- Paramount Primal, Chris Basler, Nick Cutter, and Lyrical Media are involved in the project.
- What
- A feature-film adaptation of Nick Cutter’s horror novel The Troop is in development.
- When
- The novel was published in 2014; the article does not specify when the film will be released.
- Where
- The article does not specify a filming or story location.
- Why
- Paramount Primal acquired the novel’s rights to develop it as a horror feature.
- Project
- The Troop feature-film adaptation
- Source material
- The Troop, a 2014 horror novel by Nick Cutter
- Screenwriter
- Chris Basler
- Producer
- Lyrical Media
- Studio label
- Paramount Primal
- Story premise
- Scout campers face an intruder, infection, and a struggle for survival
- Author identity
- Nick Cutter is the pseudonym of Craig Davidson