Back in 2009 we brought you the news when Stephen Susco (The Posession) was hired to pen the live action big-screen adaptation of the Devil’s Due Publishing and Image Comics series Hack/Slash created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli.

Now, THR reports that Relativity Media has hired director Marcus Nispel (Conan the Barbarian) to helm the project about Cassie Hack, a woman who symbolizes the cliche of the lone girl who survives at the end of every horror movie. In this case, the girl not only survived but has become a killer of killers. Along with a hulking protector named Vlad, Hack travels across the country hunting slashers in the vein of Halloween‘s Michael Myers, Friday the 13th‘s Jason Voorhees and A Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Freddy Krueger.

While Stephen Susco was hired to pen the adaptation back in 2009, he was not the first to script the proposed project, nor was Relativity the first studio to hold the rights to the property. That said, it’s unknown whether or not a new writer will be hired to yet again rewrite the adaptation or if they will go with one of the previous attempts.

No production or release dates have been announced for Hack/Slash.