Mandalay loves Joe Hill’s Horns

Mandalay Pictures is ready to sink its claws into author Joe Hill’s novel “Horns” and skewer it onto film. The Paramount Pictures based production company is optioning the rights to the adaptation, wiggling it around for anyone to latch to. This adds onto the ever-growing list of novel adaptations that Mandalay has tucked in their pocket which includes Spencer Quinn’s “Dog on It” and Lauren Weisberger’s “Chasing Harry Winston”.

The novel is described 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 (Variety).

The novel that is being shopped around has not even been published and is not set for release to the public until February 9, 2010. This is not the only novel under this Stephen King offspring that has been picked up to be adapted. His breakout 2007 book, “Heart-Shaped Box”, became a New York Times best seller and got scooped up by Warner Bros Pictures. At the moment “The Brave One” director Neil Jordan is set to helm the pic with Akiva Goldsman producing. Currently Goldsman is in the middle of producing several pictures, his most recent one being the comic book adaptation called “The Losers”.