Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Cinemystery: Daniel Radcliffe in Joe Hill's Horns

Daniel Radcliffe in Horns, adapted from the novel by Joe Hill

Entertainment Weekly has the first photo of Daniel Radcliffe in the film adaptation of Joe Hill's Horns (right; click for larger image). We were curious how they would handle the titular effect, and have to admit, we're quite impressed with how it looks.

"It's a very, very different type of part than anything I've done before," teases Radcliffe. Today marked the first time the actor settled into a Vancouver makeup chair for several hours of prosthetics application.

Radcliffe plays Ig Perrish in the film (book synopsis below), directed by Alexandre Aja from an adapted screenplay by Keith Bunin. We do not believe Horns has a release date yet.

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Horns by Joe Hill

Horns
Joe Hill

At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more — he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside …

Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look — a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It's time for a little revenge … It's time the devil had his due …

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