Natasha Lyonnehas been tapped to star in and produceBasketful of Heads, an adaptation of the Joe Hill graphic novel series of the same name,Deadlinereports. The film will be written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, the filmmaker behind the 2014 indie neo-vampire filmA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
Basketful of Headsis a darkly comedic horror tale centering on June Branch, who must save her boyfriend from kidnappers with a magic axe that gives human heads the power to continue living after decapitation. It was written by Hill with art by Leomacs and Reiko Murakami and first published by the DC Comics imprint Hill House Comics in 2019.
Bluestone Entertainment will produce the film alongside Lyonne’s Animal Pictures and Akiva Goldsman and Greg Lessans’s Weed Road. In a statement, Lyonne said she is “thrilled to work with the ingenious auteur Ana Lily Amirpour on such beloved IPand so grateful that Akiva and Bluestone brought it to us at Animal to develop. This one’s gonna be a knockout!“Amirpour also shared her excitement for the project, stating:
“I’m very excited to team up with the wickedly funny and brilliant Natasha Lyonne to adapt this comic into a film. We’re going to bring to life a new type of antihero who gets pulled into a bizarre adventure that unleashes something inside her and turns her life inside out. It’s gonna be darkly funny, surreal and bloody as hell.”
As the project is still in early development, no filming or release dates have been announced at this time.
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Since releasing her breakout filmA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,Ana Lily Amirpourdirected the featureThe Bad Batch, starring Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, and Jim Carrey, andMona Lisa and the Blood Moon, starring Kate Hudson and Craig Robinson. She also directed episodes of TV, includingLegion, Castle Rock, Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, and Jordan Peele’s reimagining ofThe Twilight Zone.
Upcoming projects for Akiva Goldsman as producer include an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novelRainbow Sixand the fourth season ofStar Trek: Brave New Worlds, for which Goldsman also serves as showrunner. He is also set to pen the script forPractical Magic 2, returning to the world of the 1998 film alongside stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. While nothing official has been announced yet, the film is expected to be released sometime in 2026 or after.
Previous adaptations of Hill’s work includeHorns, starring Daniel Radcliffe, the AMC seriesN0S4A2, and the Blumhouse horror hitThe Black Phone.
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