Joe Hill the writer of the novel Horns, in which the movie is based on talks in an interview to SFN about the film director Alexandre Aja and its main lead Daniel Radcliffe.
Regarding
Daniel Radcliffe playing the lead role of Ig Perrish, Hill had this to say:
“I
haven’t seen it, I’m tremendously excited and I think it’s great that Daniel
Radcliffe decided to step into the title role because he’s such a great match
for the part and he instantly brings so much humour and humanity to the role of
Ig.”
“I’ve
seen some of the footage, I know that there’s a rough cut that’s been pulled
together, I know that everyone who’s seen the rough cut has been pretty
exuberant, that they feel like there’s really something there. And especially
they feel like there’s great chemistry and great feeling between Daniel
Radcliffe and Juno Temple [the Killer Joe star plays Ig's girlfriend Merrin].”
And
about the script and the director Alexandre Aja:
“I
thought the finished script was very strong, I liked it the way it adhered to
the book and I liked some of the places where it departed from the book and
became its own thing.”
“I’ve
seen some of the footage, and my impression is that Alexandre Aja isn’t just
directing a film but kind of painting one, it’s a very painter-looking picture.
So I’m hopeful. You never know what you’re going to get, you know.
“You
hope it’s going to be good and I think it has a chance to be good but you know,
there’s not much, it’s really easy to come up with something like Woman in
Black that’s great, but there are other adaptations that great creators went
into with the best of intentions but wound up very flat and dead on the screen,
so we’ll have to see, but I’m hopeful.”
“I talked to one person who had seen the
picture who said he thought it was so far and away Aja’s best work that he had
jumped to a completely different level. Of course that’s what I want to hear so
you hope that that’s true. But I think he’s an incredibly sweet and decent guy,
and hard-working.”
“I
used to love boxing and there were boxers who would fight every four months,
real punchers, and then a lot of boxers who sometimes would only have a single
fight every two years. And you always wondered about those guys, you always
wondered about how good are they really, they’re not testing themselves against
many fighters, and Alexandre Aja likes to fight.”
“Some
people jump into film and then they talk and they make deals and stuff, and
Alexandre Aja loves to make movies. So very prolific, very enaged. Spielberg’s
that way.”
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