 The following May, Stuart Beattie, one of the writers for "", was rewriting Niles' "30 Days of Night" draft for production.Niles was pleased with Beattie's faithfully rewritten script, which was submitted to the studio in October 2004.In September 2005, it was announced that director David Slade had signed on to "30 Days of Night", which would be distributed by Columbia Pictures mainly in North America and Mandate Pictures in international territories.