Paramount Pictures is developing a feature film adaptation of Grady Hendrix's horror novel The Final Girl Support Group, with Christopher Landon set to write and direct. Deadline reported the deal on 29 July 2026.

Andy and Barbara Muschietti are producing through their Double Dream label, alongside Adam Goldworm through Aperture Entertainment. Hendrix, the novel's author, will serve as executive producer.

The book follows a Los Angeles-based therapy group for six "final girls" — the last survivor left standing at the end of a slasher film — who each survived mass-murderer rampages that went on to inspire 1980s and '90s horror franchises. Published by Random House/Berkley, it became a New York Times bestseller and won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel of 2021.

This is not the project's first life on screen. The Final Girl Support Group was previously set up at HBO Max as a television series, with the Muschiettis and Charlize Theron attached to produce. Theron is no longer involved in the new iteration. The move from a streaming series to a Paramount feature film signals a fresh start for the adaptation rather than a continuation.

Landon and Hendrix have collaborated before. Landon produced the film version of Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism for Amazon Studios, establishing a working relationship that now extends to this new project. Aperture Entertainment, Goldworm's company, also represents Hendrix as a client.

Paramount's interest in Hendrix extends beyond this title. The studio is separately developing BadAsstronauts, a Hendrix novella, with Todd Garner and Goldworm producing and Hendrix executive producing. Another Hendrix novel, How to Sell a Haunted House, is set up at Legendary Entertainment for its own adaptation. Deadline reported that deal in December 2025.

For fans of the horror genre, Landon's involvement carries a clear appeal. He is best known for writing and directing films that blend scares with dark comedy, including Happy Death Day and Freaky. The Muschiettis, meanwhile, brought Stephen King's It back to the big screen in two blockbuster chapters for Warner Bros.

No production start date or release date has been announced.