AMC Puts the Bite on NOS4A2
Steve Barton
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Can another literary adaptation reach the heights of success that AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has? We’ll soon see because not only does the network have “Preacher” on the way, but now Deadline is reporting that they also have Joe Hill’s “NOS4A2.”
The new supernatural horror series will be based on the bestselling novel by Joe Hill (Horns, Locke & Key). A search is under way for a writer to pen the adaptation, which is being produced by Michael Eisner’s Tornante TV (“BoJack Horseman”) and AMC Studios.
“NOS4A2” centers on Victoria “Vic” McQueen, a young woman with an uncanny talent for finding lost things… a gift that is gradually destroying her mind. Her search for help leads her to someone with powers not unlike her own: the psychopath Charlie Manx, who has survived for a century by abducting children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith (license plate: NOS4A2) and draining his passengers of their souls to keep himself forever young. When Manx kidnaps Vic’s own son, she’ll plunge into the impossible, nightmare world that lies just beneath the surface of everyday America in a desperate attempt to get him back.
The book, published by William Morrow in 2013, debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is the latest work by Hill to be optioned for the screen.
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