Skyla Arndt's "House of Hearts," the movie

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While Hollywood has yet to give me a call, a girl can still dream! In fact, half my shower routine involves me vividly hallucinating red carpet premieres… Anyway, if I won the author lottery and managed to get House of Hearts on screen, I would love to see it adapted as a limited TV series.

House of Hearts takes place in a darkly atmospheric boarding school and features a romantic duo similar to Maxton Hall (if James and Ruby were doomed soulmates and had a vengeful ghost chasing after them). I don’t have a specific director in mind, but I imagine House of Heart’s adaptation to land in-between Wednesday and Haunting of Hill House on the horror scale–a few ghostly scares like the latter with the campy boarding school fun of the former. As for the casting itself: for my platinum-haired brainiac MC, I envision her as a teenaged Anya Taylor-Joy...[read on]

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