The Longest Yard and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning screenwriter Sheldon Turner has become a popular studio scribe, having no less than seven of his projects picked up with the intention of being turned into movies.

One of those include the Magneto spin-off.

And today we can add a new project which New Regency have snapped up. It’s titled Down River and it takes the general idea of Into the Wild and adds a Lost/Lord of the Flies aspect to it.

The story revolves around four twentysomething masters of the corporate world who decide to go on an actual adventure trip to the Amazon rather than on a high-class trip where you pretend to rough it. Things go awry when their tour guide is killed and the men have to face not only dangerous wildlife and tribesmen but also one another.

I’m down with this. The Beach and Lord of the Flies are two of my favourite novels of all time and apart from the t.v. show Lost (although it treats things differently than both novels) they have never really seen a really great adaptation.

Let’s hope it is as well cast as Lost.

source - the hollywood reporter