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Matt Reeves has been signed on to adapt another bestselling vampire horror novel entitled The Passage.

According to Deadline, Justin Cronin’s bestselling novel is to be brought to the big screen by Reeves, with Scott Free producing.

Reeves – who recently re-imagined John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Swedish horror novel Let the Right One In – won critical acclaim for reinventing the story, under the guise of Let Me In.

While Swedish director Tomas Alfredson’s indie version arrived on the scene first, Reeves managed to rework the book as a credible stand alone film, packaged for the mainstream market.

Reeves is also well-known for directing sci-fi monster movie Cloverfield.

Fox have held the rights to The Passage since 2007, and a script has already been written by John Logan. However, Reeves is set to oversee a rewrite by another writer while Logan works on the next Bond film.

The futuristic novel spans more than 90 years, and is about an experimental project to develop a drug to cure terminal diseases. This drug is extracted from a virus carried by South American bats, but when cancer sufferers become subject to bites from the bats, the project fails dramatically.