Another bestselling thriller by Canadian author Linwood Barclay is about to get the Hollywood treatment.
Barclay's 2019 book "Fear the Worst," about a divorced father searching for his missing teenage daughter, is set to star Jason Priestley, who will also executive produce the project.
The deal was announced in a release Tuesday by film and television production company Reynolds Entertainment and Marina Cordoni Entertainment, which inked the deal.
Toronto-based Barclay is a prolific writer, with several books that have been adapted for the big and small screens in the past.
That includes his 2011 thriller "The Accident," now also a six-part television series in France, and the novel "Never Saw it Coming" which was adapted into a 2017 film directed by Gail Harvey.
Barclay will pen the screenplay for "Fear the Worst."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 10, 2020.
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Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A previous version erroneously referred to Reynolds Entertainment as being backed by Ryan Reynolds.