Regina King will direct Bitter Root .
The If Beale Street Could Talk actress has agreed a deal which will also see her produce the adaptation of David F. Walker, Sanford Greene, and Chuck Brown s Image Comics series with her sister Reina King via their Royal Ties Banner, alongside Proximity Media s Ryan and Zinzi Coogler and Sev Ohanian.
Casting information is not yet available.
Bryan Edward Hill is currently rewriting a draft script for the film, which tells the tail of a family of once-great monster hunters as they come up against an unimaginable evil in 1924 New York City.
For generations, the Sangeryes hunted and cured those infected by a supernatural force which fed off prejudice to turn humans into hideous monsters but with most of the clan dead and the surviving members of the family at odds between killing or saving the creatures, they must overcome the difficulties of their past in the hope of staving off an invasion.