Netflix Snaps Up Female-Driven Thriller Spec ‘Devil’s Rope’ From Melanie Toast

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired Devil’s Rope , an original spec by Melanie Toast, to be produced by Toby Jaffe.

Plot details are under wraps, though sources described the project as a female-led thriller set in rural Texas. Toast and Jaffe reunite here following their work together on the upcoming Cliffhanger reboot helmed by Carry-On ‘s Jaume Collet-Serra.

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Toast’s Cliffhanger is a reimagining of the 1993 action classic starring Sylvester Stallone. Pierce Brosnan stars as seasoned mountaineer Ray Cooper, who operates a luxury chalet in the Dolomites with daughter Sydney. During a weekend trip with a billionaire’s son, the pair are targeted by a gang of kidnappers. Ray’s other daughter Naomi (Lily James), still haunted by a past climbing accident, witnesses the attack and escapes, then going about working to save her family.

Currently, Toast is writing on Seismic , based on the spec by Mortal Kombat ‘s Greg Russo, with 21 Laps aboard to produce for Netflix. The thriller follows a single mother who fights to reunite with her missing son amid chaos after the Earth’s surface is decimated by a mysterious attack. Toast came to work with Netflix and 21 Laps after scripting their film The Poet , based on the true crime article by Corey Mead that was published by Greg Nichols and Matthew Pearl’s digital magazine and media company, Truly*Adventurous.

Toast sold her pitch competitively to adapt the short story Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit with James Wan’s Atomic Monster and 3 Arts Entertainment producing. She also sold spec Shut In to New Line at auction for Jason Bateman to direct and Nicole Kidman to star. She’s repped by 3 Arts, UTA, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

Past projects for Jaffe include 20th/Hulu’s Joey King starrer The Princess , Bloodshot , Hunter Killer , Prom Night , and the Syfy series Happy! , to name just a few.

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