HBO Max is developing a series based on The Final Girl Support Group

Though Grady Hendrix’s latest novel, The Final Girl Support Group, only hit shelves a week ago, an on-screen adaptation is already in the works.

According to Deadline, actress Charlize Theron and her production company, Denver and Delilah Films, are working on developing the project for HBO Max. That doesn’t automatically mean Theron herself would be involved with the series onscreen, but…this story feels so perfect for her it might actually be shocking if she didn’t. 

The story follows a Los Angeles-based therapy group for “final girls” – women who survived the sort of brutal massacres and serial killer rampages that the slasher films of the 1980s and 90s made famous. Though their unfortunate club only has five members, they’ve all handled the pressures of survival differently. Some have turned to drugs, others to charity work, and still more to intense paranoia, living reclusive lives removed from the world — outside of their monthly sessions together, that is.

When one of the girls stops showing up to their meetings, the group fears someone has turned on them, possibly preparing to sell their darkest secrets to the highest bidder. But Lynnette Tarkington, the survivor of the infamous Silent Night Slayings of 1988, is convinced that something much more sinister is going on. She thinks someone’s coming after final girls — in an attempt to make the ultimate franchise finale.

It and It: Chapter 2 director Andy Muschietti is set to helm the pilot episode.

Hendrix is something of a buzzy name in horror fiction these days, with several other big and small screen adaptations of his novels in the works. The one you’ve probably heard of (and even maybe read yourself) is The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, a story that tackles the tropes and stereotypes of vampire fiction in much the same way that Final Girl Support Group handles slasher stories.

Southern Book Club, as well as Hendricks’s other novels My Best Friend’s Exorcism and Horrorstör, are all in various stages of development as either films or TV shows , so it’s not terribly surprising that HBO Max has swooped in and scooped this title up.

Have you read The Final Girl Support Group yet? Tell us what you thought of it in the comments.