Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman may make his directorial debut with the adaptation of Dave King’s novel, "The Ha-Ha," Variety reports. He will make his decision after reviewing the script, to be written by someone else. The story centers on a Vietnam vet who is unable to communicate normally after experiencing a severe blow to the head during the war. Thirty years later, his high school sweetheart seeks him out to look over after her son so she can go into rehab for a drug problem. With the boy in his life, he learns to live again. Goldsman won a screenwriting Oscar for "A Beautiful Mind" and wrote the screenplay for the forthcoming movies "Cinderella Man," starring Russell Crowe; "Memoirs of a Geisha," starring Zhang Ziyi; and "The Da Vinci Code," starring Tom Hanks.
