Stephen King's Son Goes To The Movies

A couple weeks ago I was browsing through a book store with a friend when we came across Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box. The name and cover was enough to catch my eye. But not enough to get me to buy it. The independent book store had a small printed author biography that revealed Hill as Stephen King's son. That's right – THE Stephen King. I wondered out loud why that fact was left of the book's cover, and why Hill did not keep King's last name. It was probably to avoid stories like this with headlines like this.

I later found out that Hill chose his pen name in an effort to succeed based on his own merits. Only after winning a few awards (including the Bram Stoker Award for best fiction collection) did Hill reveal his identity. And of course now Warner Bros is suddenly interested in his book.

And today it was announced that Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire) will rewrite and direct Heart-Shaped Box for Warner.

So what is the book about? Jude Coyne, a middle aged rock-star, is a collector of all things strange and gruesome. One day, Jude buys a ghost on a third party site like eBay and it changes Jude's life for the worse.

Sounds interesting.