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Joe Hill’s ‘Twittering from the Circus of the Dead’ Gets Adapted
Joe Hill (“Horns,” “Locke & Key”) continues to be a hot Hollywood commodity as the son of Stephen King has sold yet another story to be adapted into a feature film.
Mandalay has picked up the film rights to Hill’s short story Twittering from the Circus of the Dead, says Heat Vision. The company is moving fast putting the creative pieces together, tapping Chris Borrelli (The Vatican Tapes, Whisper) to write the adaptation and is in negotiations with Todd Lincoln (The Apparition) to direct.
“The short story, written entirely as tweets from a teenage girl, follows an American family on a cross country road trip that goes horribly wrong.” The tale appeared in “The New Dead,” an anthology of zombie stories, published earlier this year.
Hill’s first novel, “Heart Shaped Box,” was a New York Times best-seller and is set up at Warner Bros. His comic book book series “Locke & Key” was a hot commodity this past pilot season and was adapted by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Josh Friedman, and directed by Mark Romanek. This is Mandalay’s second team-up with Hill; the company picked up his novel “Horns” last year.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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