Aside from one sci-fi blip with his planned adaptation of manga/anime series Cobra, Alexandre Aja seems firmly committed to developing horror-themed properties. Because though Undying Love sounds like it could be a brief side trip into romantic drama, it’s actually Aja looking to get his teeth into a little vampire action, courtesy of the graphic novel.
Warner Bros. picked up the rights to Tomm Coker and Daniel Friedman’s Image Comics series last July, intending to turn the genre mash title into a film.
Love finds a former soldier falling for a young woman. She turns out to be a member of the fang club, which would scare off many paramours, but our hero decides that he’s going to save her. Unfortunately for him, that means taking on her creator, a powerful bloodsucker protected by an army of particularly dangerous monsters in the Hong King Underworld.
Coker and Friedman have been hammering away at a script, which Aja is in negotiations to direct. His most recent writing/producing job, horror remake Maniac, features Elijah Wood as serial murderliser Frank Zito and is now slaughtering its way through the editing process. It may well be bloodying up our cinemas before the year is out. He’s also working up a cinematic version of Joe Hill’s ace scare tome Horns.