Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 Coming To AMC

AMC Develops New Horror Series Based on Hill’s Book

News is coming from our friends at Deadline that Joe Hill’s NOS4A2 will soon be seen on the small screen thanks to AMC, home of The Walking Dead and Preacher.

NOS4A2 focuses 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 another media. His fantasy thriller Horns was made into a 2014 feature directed by Alex Aja and starring Daniel Radcliffe. Heart-Shaped Box, bought originally by Warner Bros for producer Akiva Goldsman and writer/director Neil Jordan, is currently being redeveloped at Warner Bros. by Langley Park Productions. Hill’s supernatural comic series Locke & Key was first developed for TV, landing a pilot order at Fox, and then as a feature at Universal. It is currently being looked at again as a TV series. Last season, Hill wrote and executive produced Tales From The Darkside, a remake of the 1980s fantasy/horror anthology series, which was piloted by the CW. Hill’s fourth novel The Fireman, will be published in May 2016. In addition to NOS4A2, Tornante TV also is developing Fated, an university-set drama for NBC.

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