Universal buys memory thief movie from horror novelist Joe Hill
Coming Soon is reporting that Universal has scooped up a new property from up-and-coming horror author Joe Hill, co-creator of the popular IDW Publishing comic series Locke & Key. The studio has optioned Hill’s recent novella Snapshot 1988, about a 13-year-old-boy who discovers that an elderly woman he’s caring for isn’t suffering from dementia, but the attentions of a malevolent memory thief, instead. (Think Inception, maybe, but with an added depressing old-age subtext.)