Universal Pictures beaten out 20th Century Fox to snap up the rights to author Joe Hill’s upcoming horror novella Snapshot 1988, and has tapped Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard (Ouija 2: Origin of Evil) to pen the script for a movie adaptation from Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions.
The novella, which is due for publication in the spring of 2018 and has drawn comparisons to Stranger Things in terms of its tone, is set in 1988 and centres “on a 13-year old boy who ends up taking care of his elderly former housekeeper whom he thinks is succumbing to dementia. What he doesn’t know is that her memories are not being lost but stolen by an evil man named The Phoenician who uses a camera that steals memories.”
Hill is the author behind Horns, which was adapted for the screen with Daniel Radcliffe. He also has Heart Shaped Box, The Fireman and Locke & Key in development as features, along with a TV adaptation of NOS4A2.
Via THR
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Originally published September 25, 2016. Updated April 16, 2018.
