Alexandre Aja Is Growing HORNS

Horror fans wondering when Alex Aja would get around to directing another film that was not a remake now have their answer. Aja is now scheduled to direct an adaptation of Joe Hill's Horns in spring / summer 2012.

Here's how Amazon describes the second novel by the son of Stephen King:

Merrin Williams is dead, slaughtered under inexplicable circumstances, leaving her beloved boyfriend Ignatius Perrish as the only suspect. On the first anniversary of Merrin's murder, Ig spends the night drunk and doing awful things. When he wakes the next morning he has a thunderous hangover . . . and horns growing from his temples. Ig possesses a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look--a macabre gift he intends to use to find the monster who killed his lover. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. Now it's time for revenge . . .

Mandalay are backing the picture, which will work from a script by Scott Bunin. Hill will be involved as an executive producer. The hope is for Aja to complete work on this and then move directly on to his manga / anime adaptation Cobra.