Guillermo Del Toro Taps Rupert Friend, Kevin Durand & Jaeden Martell To Star In Netflix Adaption Of His Six-Part Novella ‘The Boy In The Iron Box’

Netflix has set the leads for The Boy in the Iron Box, its feature adaptation of the six-part horror novella series from Chuck Hogan and Guillermo Del Toro, on which Del Toro is a producer, Deadline can confirm. They are Rupert Friend (Companion), Kevin Durand (The Naked Gun), and Jaeden Martell (It films).

Published through Amazon Original Stories, the novella series watches as a plane carrying a team of mercenaries crash-lands on a remote snowy summit. When they come across a maze-like stone fortress, it’s no refuge from the wolves and the freezing wind. It’s more like a trap. What they discover can stop the heart — or worse. As terror takes a new shape, the real battle for survival begins.

David Prior, a collaborator of Del Toro’s on Netflix’s Cabinet of Curiosities, will direct from his own script. Del Toro will produce alongside longtime partner J. Miles Dale,…