This might be the weirdest adaptation choice ever. Writer: Neil Jordan (based on the book by Joe Hill)
Joe Hill’s title was pulled from Nirvana’s song, “Heart-shaped Box.” Neil Jordan, who adapts today’s script, has won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (The Crying Game). With the recent success of Black Phone, there’s a good chance the book will be thrust back onto the Hollywood deal table. Highly recommended.Premise: An aging rocker with a hankering for death-themed items purchases an old suit online that is said to be haunted, as it comes with the ghost of the man it belonged to.Ībout: This is an early adaptation of one of Joe Hill’s books. This was one of those books that you truly just can’t put down. At the same time, it’s quite humorous, with musical jokes and references thrown in along the way, like the names of the dogs and the title Heart-Shaped Box itself. This is a dark book, and if you’ll forgive the pun, haunting as well. He is, in fact, Joseph Hillstrom King, the son of Stephen King, so the fact he wanted to succeed without using his father’s influence speaks in his favour. Hill started writing in 1997, and didn’t confirm his true identity until 2007.
The current incumbent, Florida, and Coyne flee with the dogs in tow, aiming firstly to get away, then finally to find out why the ghost is out to get them both before it kills them or makes them kill each other. The ghost aims to drive Coyne to suicide or murder – or both.Ĭoyne also has a never-ending stream of replacable girlfriends/groupies whom he nicknames after their state of origin, for example, Georgia or Florida. After the suit arrives, it become plain that there is indeed a ghost and he has a particular vendetta against Coyne.
It’s a novel about an aging rock star, Judas Coyne, who is supposedly contemporary to Ossie Osborn and who has two large dogs called Angus and Bon (hahaha).Īs goes with the territory, Coyne is a collector of the magical, the strange and the macabre – and so when a ghost is offered for purchase on the internet, he buys it, along with the dead man’s suit. I really enjoyed Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill.
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