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 Cur

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