According to Deadline, Universal Pictures has optioned movie rights to Kate Alice Marshall‘s survival novel I Am Still Alive. Ben Affleck is attached to star and is finalizing a deal to produce through his Pearl Street Films banner.
Published by Viking Children’s Books, the novel is described as Wild meets The Revenant, infused with ferocious girl power. Jess is a teenage every-girl who, after a car crash kills her mother and leaves her injured, is forced to move in with her off-the-grid dad in the Canadian wilderness and adapt to a new way of life. But when certain events leave her stranded, far away from any help, with only her father’s dog for company, she’ll discover she’s stronger than she ever imagined. Affleck will play the father.
Lori Evans Taylor, who scripted the upcoming Bed Rest, will adapt the novel for the screen.
About I AM STILL ALIVE:
“This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense. . . . [this book] just might be the highlight of your summer.”–The New York Times
After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive—for now.
Before: Jess hadn’t seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded.
After: With only her father’s dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. Some days it feels like the wild is out to destroy her, but she’s stronger than she ever imagined.
Jess will survive. She has to. She knows who killed her father…and she wants revenge.
