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Ha-Ha Comes to Warners
Akiva Goldsman could possibly make his feature directing debut on adaptation
of Dave King novel.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
By Lisa Johnson
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Goldsman may direct his first project
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The Dave King novel The Ha-Ha has been optioned by Warner Bros. for
Akiva Goldsman to adapt through his Weed Road Productions banner. Goldsman will
not only produce but perhaps make his directorial debut on the project.
Goldsman will not write the script, however, even though he won an Oscar for
penning A Beautiful Mind and did scripts for I, Robot, Cinderella
Man, Memoirs of a Geisha and The Da Vinci Code. He will decide
if he will direct or not once he receives a draft of the script, which is out
to writers.
The story centers on a Vietnam vet who has adjusted to life after a land mine explosion leaves him unable to speak or write. His high school sweetheart, who had a child with another man, reappears and shakes up his routine by asking him to care for her son while she goes to rehab to kick her cocaine habit.
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