Ana Lily Amirpour, acclaimed director of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, will write and direct an adaptation of Joe Hill’s horror comic Basketful of Heads. Deadline reports that Bluestone Entertainment secured the rights. Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face, Orange Is the New Black) is set to lead the cast.
Basketful of Heads, a seven-issue series launched in 2017 from DC’s Hill House, follows June Branch. She discovers that each bad guy she kills leaves a talking head. With each head, June gains a new voice. Her twisted Greek chorus grows as she carries eight more pounds of literal baggage.
Bluestone will finance the action horror comedy. Akiva Goldsman and Greg Lessans will produce for Weed Road. Shiva Nassab, Bluestone’s Director of Development, brought the project to the company. She will oversee it.
Lyonne will produce for Animal Pictures. Dannah Shinder will executive produce. Max Ferguson will oversee. Richard Saperstein, Brooke Saperstein, and Annie Saperstein will produce for Bluestone Entertainment. Beau Turpin will executive produce.
Lyonne expressed her excitement. “I’m thrilled to work with the ingenious auteur Ana Lily Amirpour,” she said. “This is such beloved IP. I’m grateful that Akiva and Bluestone brought it to us at Animal to develop. This one’s gonna be a knockout!”
Amirpour shared her enthusiasm. “I’m very excited to team up with the wickedly funny and brilliant Natasha Lyonne,” she said. “We will adapt this comic into a film. We’re going to bring to life a new kind of antihero. She gets pulled into a bizarre adventure. It unleashes something inside her. It turns her life inside out. It’s gonna be darkly funny, surreal, and bloody as hell.”
Hill will publish his fifth novel, King Sorrow, on October 21st. Previous adaptations of his works include The Black Phone, Horns, “Locke & Key,” and “NOS4A2,”. He is well on his way to creating an impressive legacy, much like his father, Stephen King.
