Netflix gets the rights to First Ascent!!

Netflix just go the rights to the First Ascent. Written by Colin Bannon’s The Black List genre script. Deadline reports the script is described as The Shining meets Free Solo.
Jake Scott is attached to direct.

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It begins two years after a free solo accident nearly kills Hillary Hall, she enlists the help of her old climbing partners to document her comeback — the first ascent of a 4000-foot “virgin” rock wall in China. During the harrowing summit, Hillary struggles with her inner demons and supernatural forces, as it slowly becomes clear that this mountain does not want to be conquered.

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Produced by: Ridley Scott, Kevin Walsh, Michael Pruss, and Sukee Chew.