Karen Croner to write HELLO GHOST remake for Chris Columbus

Karen Croner has been tapped to write the script for the remake of Hello Ghost for director Chris Columbus. Deadline reports that the film is inspired by the Korean comedy about "a man whose failed suicide attempt allows him to see ghosts who haunt him until he grants each of them one wish." 

Here's the synopsis of the original film:

A man attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge into a river. He fails, but the end result is that he starts seeing ghosts. He then goes to the hospital and gets an examination. Is he going crazy? He meets a nurse at the hospital and quickly falls in love. But those pesky ghosts still haunt him everywhere he goes. He decides to help the ghosts fulfill their unrealized dreams to get them to leave him alone once and for all.

Croner has mostly written dramas, such as the Meryl Streep-starrer One True Thing, but has recently made a switch to comedy. She scripted Admission, which Paul Weitz will direct with Tina Fey starring, and Croner just finished Kiss and Tango for Jennifer Lopez at Fox 2000.

I am not familiar with the original, but it sounds like an interesting story. Columbus does not give me great hopes for this. What are your thoughts?