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Twittering from the Circus of the Dead

5/23/11 - Mandalay has picked up the film rights to Joe Hill’s short story Twittering from the Circus of the Dead, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The company has tapped Chris Borrelli to write the adaptation and is in negotiations with Todd Lincoln to direct.  Cathy Schulman will produce via the Mandalay banner. Hill will serve as an executive producer.  The short story, written entirely as tweets from a teenage girl, follows an American family on a cross country road trip that goes horribly wrong. The tale appeared in The New Dead, an anthology of zombie stories, published earlier this year.  Mandalay’s VP Adam Stone will oversee the project and also serve in a producer capacity.  Hill’s first novel, Heart Shaped Box, was a New York Times best-seller and is set up at Warner Bros. His comic book series Locke & Key was a hot commodity this past pilot season and was adapted by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Josh Friedman, and directed by Mark Romanek. This is Mandalay’s second team-up with Hill; the company picked up his novel Horns last year.

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