Tom Pabst has been hired to adapt Joe Hill's upcoming novel "Heart-Shaped Box" for Warner Bros. Pictures says The Hollywood Reporter
The novel is a supernatural thriller about 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 the son of horror author Stephen King and wrote an award-winning collection of short stories titled "20th Century Ghosts". Akiva Goldsman will produce.
