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.