Lynne Ramsay is following up her violent vigilante thriller “You Were Never Really Here” with another disturbing story.  She’s signed on to direct Village Roadshow’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1999 novel “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon,” The Hollywood Reporter confirms. 

Written by Ramsay and “I’m Not Okay With This” co-creator Christy Hall, the pic will focus on a young girl named Trisha McFarland “who gets lost while hiking with her mother and brother in the woods. Nine years old and scared of the dark, the girl winds up stumbling through the woods for days, wandering farther and farther from civilization even as she tries to make her way back home. As she walks, dehydration, hunger, and exhaustion cause her to hallucinate, causing her to talk to her idol, a baseball player named Tom Gordon. But she also begins to believe that she’s being stalked by a supernatural beast, and soon her ordeal becomes a test of both her sanity and her ability to fight for her life,” the source hints.

Ramsay won Best Screenplay for “You Were Never Really Here,” the story of a mercenary hired to rescue a politician’s kidnapped daughter by any means necessary, at the 2017 edition of Cannes Film Festival. She also scored a British Independent Film Award for the script. Ramsay’s other credits include “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” “Morvern Callar,” and “Ratcatcher.”