Gary Dauberman's Coin Operated Acquires Rights to McCammon's 'Yellowjacket Summer'; Daniel Kraus to Write Screenplay
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Matt Grobar
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Summary
Gary Dauberman's production company Coin Operated has acquired the rights to Robert R. McCammon's horror short story "Yellowjacket Summer," originally published in 1986 in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine. The story follows a mother and her children stranded in a dying Georgia town overrun by yellowjackets, uncovering an evil within the swarm. Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus has been enlisted to adapt the screenplay for a feature film adaptation.
Key quotes
· 1 pulledFirst published in the October 1986 issue of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, McCammon's story follows a mother and her children who become stranded in a dying Georgia town overrun by yellowjackets, uncovering an evil from within the swarm that will do anything to protect the hive.
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