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Todd Lincoln, one of the next big names in horror, is in negotiations to direct the feature film adaptation of author Joe Hill’s “Twittering from the Circus of the Dead” for Mandalay.
The short story, says The Hollywood Reporter, can be found in a book called “The New Dead”, an anthology of zombie stories, published earlier this year. In the yarn, written entirely as tweets from a teenage girl, follows an American family on a cross country road trip that goes horribly wrong.
Just like Lincoln, director of the buzzworthy 2012 release “The Apparition”, Hill too is developing quite a name for himself. Aside from the fact that he’s the son of famed author Stephen King, the young writer has already had best-sellers, many of which have since been snapped up by the studios.
Despite being a zombie movie (some say ‘yet another’ zombie movie), screenwriter Chris Borrelli and director Lincoln are reportedly planning to inject “Circus of the Dead” with some surprise changes.
