Oh shit, here we go.  Fangoria is reporting that Wes Craven is writing a sequel to The Hills Have Eyes.  Here is the report:

At a taping for his FANGORIA TV SCREAMOGRAPHY profile, Wes Craven revealed that he and son Jonathan will be writing the sequel to Alexandre Aja’s THE HILLS HAVE EYES remake (which Craven co-produced, based on his 1977 original), a project currently on the fast track. “We want to continue the story of the miners,” Craven tells us. “This time, a group of National Guard screw-ups come face to face with the mutants on their last day of training in the desert. We will take the audience underground [into the mines] as well. The studio, Fox Searchlight, wants the sequel out a year to the day after the last one, so we have to deliver our script in a matter of weeks.”

After HILLS took in over $40 million in the U.S. alone, Craven and producing partner Marianne Maddalena offered the inevitable follow-up to Frenchman Aja (who co-wrote the redux with pal Gregory Lavasseur). Aja declined. “So my son and I decided to write it ourselves, and we are hard at work,” Craven says. “I wrote LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT in three days, so this shouldn’t be so tough.” Craven and son previously collaborated on the Lance Henriksen horror movie MIND RIPPER, which, coincidentally, had begun life as a third HILLS movie back in 1995 before being reconfigured as a stand-alone film. The latest HILLS 2 will ignore Craven’s own critically lambasted HILLS sequel from 1985, dog flashback and all. So with Aja out of the picture, who will direct the new HILLS?

“We’re talking with Michael J. Bassett, now that Alexander is busy on another project [THE WAITING],” Craven reveals. British helmer Bassett has won festival acclaim with his current effort WILDERNESS (see previous item here), about juvenile delinquents being hunted as sport. “I’m also a fan of his previous film DEATHWATCH, which had some very impressive sequences and was shot for not very much money,” Craven notes of the WWI horror film which co-starred KING KONG’s Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis.

Well after reading that report I have to admit I am a little intrigued with watching some National Guard guys going up against our favorite band of desert mutants.  Sounds like this one is going to move pretty quick so check back often for the latest.