Neil Jordan to write & direct the Heart-Shaped Box movie

Filed by: Darren on April 4, 2007 at 16:09
Filed In: Books, Movies

My good buddy Joe Gordon has just emailed to point me at an articles posted on Empire Online yesterday, which reports that Irish director Neil Jordan has signed up to sort out the movie version of Heart-Shaped Box (Joe's blogged it on the FP Blog already, naturally).

Anyway, the director is question has a track record (of sorts) in the horror genre at least, being the man behind The Company of Wolves. And hey, he can't really be blamed for Interview With the Vampire; with Tom 'least convincing vampire ever' Cruise in the lead role it was pretty much doomed to ignominious failure from the word 'go', despite anyone else's best efforts to rescue it.

And at least Mr Jordan needn't worry too much about the casting for HSB, seeing as we've already got that covered. But if he wants to drop me a line and talk through the finer points of the selection process, then I'd be happy to help out, naturally... :)

Filed on: April 4, 2007
Filed under: Books, Movies
Tagged with: Heart-Shaped-Box | Joe-Hill | Neil-Jordan |

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4 Responses to 'Neil Jordan to write & direct the Heart-Shaped Box movie'

Ed on April 4th, 2007 8:09 pm

As long as he doesn't make it as High Spirits II you should be fine.
Ariel on April 4th, 2007 8:23 pm

Ouch.
Christopher Teague on April 12th, 2007 3:07 pm

Not read HSB yet, but the failure of IWaV was probably due to Anne Rice's script, which Jordan had to drastically re-write but Rice still got the sole writing credit.

Apparently.

Mind you, still can't believe that sweet little girl grew up to be Mary-Jane.
Ariel on April 12th, 2007 3:24 pm

Not read HSB yet? I reckon you'd like it, mate...