Poker Face and Orange is the New Black star Natasha Lyonne is set to produce and star in Basketful of Heads, an upcoming adaptation of the DC Hill House comic of the same name.
Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) will direct from her own script, Deadline also reports today.
The dark horror comedy tale originated as a seven-issue series by The Black Phone author Joe Hill.
In Basketful of Heads:
June discovers that every bad guy she decapitates leaves a talking head behind. With every kill, June adds a new voice to her twisted Greek chorus — and another eight pounds of literal baggage.
Lyonne let Deadline know that she's “thrilled to work with the ingenious auteur Ana Lily Amirpour on such beloved IP and so grateful that Akiva and Bluestone brought it to us at Animal to develop. This one’s gonna be a knockout!”
Amipour adds:
“I’m very excited to team up with the wickedly funny and brilliant Natasha Lyonne to adapt this comic into a film. We’re going to bring to life a new type of antihero who gets pulled into a bizarre adventure that unleashes something inside her and turns her life inside out. It’s gonna be darkly funny, surreal and bloody as hell.”
Bluestone, who acquired rights to Basketful of Heads, will finance the pic, with Akiva Goldsman and Greg Lessans producing for Weed Road alongside Director of Development Shiva Nassab.
Lyonne will produce for Animal Pictures, with Animal Pictures’ EVP of Film and Television Dannah Shinder exec producing, and Animal’s Creative Executive Max Ferguson overseeing. Richard Saperstein, Brooke Saperstein, and Annie Saperstein will produce for Bluestone Entertainment, with Beau Turpin exec producing for the company.
Lyonne has a few horrors under her belt, having starred in 2015's #Horror, 2016's psychedelic body horror Antibirth, as well as Kevin Smith's horror comedy Yoga Hosers.
Amipour's critically-acclaimed 2014 vampire horror A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night was followed by thriller The Bad Batch and 2021's Mona Lisa and the Bad Moon.
Look out for more on this exciting project as we get it.
