'The Ha-Ha: A Novel' Gets Leavitt To Adapt

[Thursday, May 5th, 2005]
Writer Chuck Leavitt is to adapt The Ha-Ha: A Novel, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Akiva Goldsman's is going to be make his directorial debut on the movie. The book, by Dave King, is written from the perspective of a brain-damaged Vietnam veteran who can't speak or write. When his high school sweetheart, for whom he still pines, dumps her 9-year-old son on his doorstep so she can enter drug rehab, the vet is forced to break out of his sheltered routine.

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