Strike Entertainment has hired Jenna McGrath to write an adaptation of Bentley Little's horror novel "The Store", according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The story centers on an evil corporation's takeover of a small town.

McGrath is a recent graduate of the UCLA screenwriting program, where she won the 2005 Screenwriter's Showcase for Reverse Psychology, described as a teen thriller about a young psychopath who seeks to destroy the credibility of her boarding school psychologist.