Mitch Albom sells movie about phone calls from heaven, which sounds about right
Sentient inspirational cross-stitch Mitch Albom has made his first feature film deal, after previously seeing his novels Tuesdays With Morrie and The Five People You Meet In Heaven turned into TV movies. Albom—himself the Hallmark Movie Channel made human—has partnered with Warner Bros. to adapt The First Phone Call From Heaven, his 2013 book about a grieving single father investigating a sudden rash of calls to a small Lake Michigan town, all from people claiming to be from the afterlife. Also, the story of Alexander Graham Bell apparently factors in, as we learn how the invention of the telephone engineered a bold new age of communication of our most mawkish feelings. Reviews on Amazon have ranged from “It was a quick read” to “This sounded like it was going to be a true story, but it wasn't” to “I prefer nonfiction as I get tired reading about characters going to bed. That seems to be the purpose of most novels.”