With the Argentinian film The Secret in Their Eyes winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar earlier this year, director Juan Jose Campanella has used that newfound acclaim to jump into Hollywood as Heat Vision reports he will make his English-language directorial debut with Heck, an adaptation of Dale E. Basye's children's fantasy series. The story follows a boy named Milton Fauster who, with his shoplifting sister, dies in a freak accident and ends up in an unearthly reform school called Heck, where Lizzie Borden teaches home economics and Richard Nixon is the ethics teacher. And this is a children's book? Read on!
Whilst stuck in the boarding school, Milton meets Virgil, a boy who has a map of the Nine Circles of Heck, and the two escape the netherworld and its leader, the principal of darkness Bea "Elsa" Bubb. Described as a kid's version of Dante's Inferno, this ...
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