Oscar winning writer Akiva Goldsman may direct the film adatation of 'The Ha-Ha: A Novel', written by first time writer Dave King, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Published last month the book 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.
Goldsman won on Oscar for writing
A Beautiful Mind.