Mandalay pictures has hired director Alexandre Aja to helm the film version of Horns, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, wrote the novel and will be producing the film.The plot of the novel follows: "26-year-old man who wakes up with a massive hangover and discovers horns sprouting from his head. He becomes convinced that their existence is tied to the unsolved murder of his girlfriend." This isn't the first attempt to bring one of Hill's novels to the big screen. His first book, Heart Shaped Box, was optioned by Neil Jordan. The film never came to be, which is a disappointment. The book is a thrilling ghost story that I would have loved to see in a theatre. I'm sure at some point Hollywood will revisit it. Especially if Horns does well.The plan is to get the production started for a spring or summer 2012 shoot.
- 12/9/2011
- LRMonline.com
Mandalay pictures has hired director Alexandre Aja to helm the film version of Horns, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, wrote the novel and will be producing the film. The plot of the novel follows: "26-year-old man who wakes up with a massive hangover and discovers horns sprouting from his head. He becomes convinced that their existence is tied to the unsolved murder of his girlfriend." This isn't the first attempt to bring one of Hill's novels to the big screen. His first book, Heart Shaped Box, was optioned by Neil Jordan. The film never came to be, which is a disappointment. The book is a thrilling ghost story that I would have loved to see in a theatre. I'm sure at some point Hollywood will revisit it. Especially if Horns does well. The plan is to get the production started for a spring or summer 2012 shoot.
- 12/9/2011
- LRMonline.com
We know you’ve been on the edge of your futon waiting for the latest Shia Labeouf news, and tonight you’re in luck. He’s attached to a new movie. Per Variety, Labeouf has signed on to an adaptation of Joe Hill’s novel Horns. It’s the story of Ignatius Perrish, a twenty-something who awakens after a bender to find a pair of horns growing on his head. People he meets suddenly feel compelled to share their darkest secrets, and soon his own behavior starts to become questionable. As if that isn’t bad enough his ex-girlfriend, the one he still loves, is found assaulted and murdered. And Ig’s the prime suspect. Hill, the son of obscure novelist Stephen King, has seen both of his novels optioned for the big screen. Heart Shaped Box was picked up by WB earlier, but it looks like Horns will be the first to hit screens. The...
- 3/17/2011
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
It would appear that Neil Jordan is fixating on death in his future, since he’s not only developing films based on Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book and Joe Hill’s thriller Heart Shaped Box, but he also signed on to direct an adaptation of Paul Murray’s book Skippy Dies.Murray’s tome, which has landed on the Booker Prize long list, is not, in fact a tragedy about Australia’s kangaroo-shaped answer to Lassie. Nope, it’s actually the tale of two mismatched roommates in an Irish boarding school.Ruprecht, a maths whizz and talented French horn player, rooms with Skippy, a boy whose mother is dying of cancer and who is being abused by the school’s gym teacher. As if his life couldn’t get worse, he then dies, and Ruprecht begins a series of science experiments to contact his friend in the afterlife. Jordan...
- 8/2/2010
- EmpireOnline
A fan of book to film adaptations, after previously being tipped to direct Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book and Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box, Neil Jordan has now set his sights on a feature adaptation of Paul Murray's Skippy Dies, a set in Ireland, dark comedy that will be set up by Number 9 Films' Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen and James Flynn's Littlewave Film Productions. From the feedback I'm getting from some book review sites, it appears that Skippy Dies will provide Jordan with a lot to work with. The book, which is actually a trio of novels and over 600 pages in length, works with many genres. Set in a public school in Ireland, this follows the adventures of two unlikely roommates -- Ruprecht, a mathematical genius with a penchant for the French horn, and Skippy, whose mother is dying of cancer and who...
- 8/2/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Joe Hill, the horror writing son of Stephen King, is getting his second novel, the unreleased “Horns”, optioned for a maybe movie. The deal with optioning is, for those unaware, is that somebody gets the rights, in this case Mandalay Pictures, to make a movie based on your work for a certain amount of time. You get money x and if they make the movie you get amount y. Obviously, y is a happier figure. Joe Hill is a chip off the old block. I read his first book, “Heart Shaped Box” and it was pretty good. In “Horns”, Hill juices up the strange in a story about a guy that wakes up one morning with big holes in his memory, horns on his head and a dead girlfriend. Sounds awesome. The book won’t even be out til next year. The optioning business is pretty cutthroat. I’ve heard...
- 10/13/2009
- by endymion
- Beyond Hollywood
Neil Jordan will rewrite and direct Heart-Shaped Box, an adaptation of the horror novel by Joe Hill, for Warner Bros. Pictures. Akiva Goldsman is producing.
The book, published in February, centers on a rock star obsessed with the occult who buys a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner's ghost. He ultimately is forced to confront the ghost and the demons of his own past.
Tom Pabst wrote the original draft.
Hill is the son of Stephen King, who chose his pen name out of a desire to succeed based on his own merits. After achieving some success -- among the awards he has collected are the Bram Stoker Award for best fiction collection -- he revealed his identity.
Kevin McCormick is overseeing for the studio.
Jordan, repped by repped by CAA and Jenne Casarotto in the U.K., recently wrapped The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster, for Warners. He most recently helmed 2005's Breakfast on Pluto and is attached to direct A Killing on Carnival Row, a fantasy for New Line.
The book, published in February, centers on a rock star obsessed with the occult who buys a suit advertised at an online auction site as haunted by its dead owner's ghost. He ultimately is forced to confront the ghost and the demons of his own past.
Tom Pabst wrote the original draft.
Hill is the son of Stephen King, who chose his pen name out of a desire to succeed based on his own merits. After achieving some success -- among the awards he has collected are the Bram Stoker Award for best fiction collection -- he revealed his identity.
Kevin McCormick is overseeing for the studio.
Jordan, repped by repped by CAA and Jenne Casarotto in the U.K., recently wrapped The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster, for Warners. He most recently helmed 2005's Breakfast on Pluto and is attached to direct A Killing on Carnival Row, a fantasy for New Line.
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