Time for the new generation to make its mark. Joe Hill, son of horror meister Stephen King will see the first big screen adaptation of one of his horror stories. The project is HEART-SHAPED BOX (click here for a NSFW version of what that could look like) and is coming out of the Warner Bros. stable.
Scripter Tom Pabst has been hired to handle the adaptation of the novel which concerns a rock star who collects occult artifacts and bids online for a ghost that leads him into the Deep South. There, he must confront his past in order to escape the haunting.
Hill is no one-trick pony, already having written the award winning horror short collection 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS. Hopefully this means we can look forward to a long and prolific career from the guy. Let’s just hope he has better luck than his dad with the consistency of quality when his work gets the big-screen treatment.