Like father like son, Stephen King’s son Joe Hill (an abbreviated of his middle name, Hillstrom so he won’t be immediately associated with his famous father) is the New York Times bestselling author of HEART-SHAPED BOX which was already picked up by Warner Bros. He also has an upcoming supernatural thriller novel titled HORNS to be published by William Morrow February 2010. According to Variety, Mandalay Pictures has optioned the screen rights to the love story driven by horror and vengeance.
Peter Guber and Schulman will produce the project and Hill is an executive producer.
Here’s the official synopsis of the book…
“Ignatius Martin Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke the next morning with a headache, put his hands to his temples and felt something unfamiliar, a pair of knobby, pointed protuberances. He was so ill—wet-eyed and weak—he didn’t think anything of it at first, was too hung-over for thinking or worry. But when he was swaying over the toilet, he glanced at himself in the mirror above the sink and saw he had grown horns while he slept.
The second son of a renowned musician and doting mother, Ig Perrish has a privileged life and expectations of a bright future with his childhood sweetheart, Merrin Williams. But life takes an unexpected dark turn when Merrin is brutally killed and suspicion falls hard on Ig.
A year passes, but Ig is nowhere near over his grief or his rage . . . feelings that come to a head in a lost evening of alcohol and hate. When he wakes the next morning he discovers that he has undergone a surreal transformation, and is in possession of an incredible power. It isn’t long before he turns his terrible new abilities towards vengeance. Unfortunately Ig is about to learn that when it comes to revenge, the devil is in the details”
