How To Sell A Haunted House, the latest novel from best-selling author Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend’s Exorcism, Final Girl Support Group), is hitting the big screen, with Variety reporting today that Legendary Entertainment won the rights to the ghostly tale.
Variety also tells us that James Ashcroft (Coming Home in the Dark) will direct from a screenplay adapted by Mr Hendrix himself, and that Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures will produce the film alongside Hendrix and Adam Goldworm’s Aperture Entertainment. Romel Adam (Don’t Breathe) and Jose Cañas (Evil Dead Rise) will oversee for Ghost House.
If you haven’t yet read How To Sell A Haunted House (and you can read an excerpt right over here), here’s the plot synopsis in all its glory:
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the house ready for sale because it’ll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
How To Sell A Haunted House will be the latest in an impressive line of Hendrix’s page-to-screen adaptations, which includes Amazon Studios’ recent adaptation of My Best Friend’s Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls and Horrorstör coming from New Republic and Final Girl Support Group currently in development at HBO Max from It director Andy Muschietti.
Very exciting news all round, and you know we will update you with all the How To Sell A Haunted House news as soon as we get it. For now, just sit tight, wait, and speculate about who – or what – is going to play sweet little Pupkin….
