Joe Hill, the son of legendary horror writer Stephen King, has a film on his hands: Mandalay Pictures has optioned the rights to his book “Horns,” which will be published this coming February.
Variety describes the book as “a love story driven by horror and vengeance that revolves around a 26-year-old man who wakes up one morning from a blackout hangover and finds horns sprouting out of his head. As the horns grow bigger by the day, the reason why seems to lie in the unsolved murder of his girlfriend.” Whoa. Stephen King meets David Cronenberg.
Hill, whose debut novel “Heart-Shaped Box” was picked up by Warner Bros. to be scripted and directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), will serve as an executive producer of the film.
I’m excited about Horns — the Stephen King-brand of horror novel adaptation seemed to end with the underrated 1408, and if Joe Hill gives us another Cujo or The Shining, I’m there. Keep an eye on AtomicPopcorn.net for information on the development of this film!
