Entertainment News
2006-01-13
David Fincher to
direct Torso
David Fincher is
carving out room in his schedule for Torso , a
thriller based on a graphic novel written by Brian
David Fincher is
carving out room in his schedule for Torso, a
thriller based on a graphic novel written by Brian
Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko, which he will direct for
Paramount Pictures. Ehren Kruger is writing the adaptation,
which will be produced by Pandemonium's Bill Mechanic,
Angry Films' Don Murphy, and comic artist Todd
McFarlane. Torso tells the true but relatively
unknown story of Treasury Department agent Eliot
Ness's time after his Al Capone days, when he moved to
Cleveland to be the city's public safety officer.
Torsos began appearing in the river, and Ness began
receiving notes taunting him to catch the killer. Ness,
who had no experience in police work, put together a team of
ex-officers to apprehend the serial murderer.
The graphic novel
was written by Bendis and the openly gay Andreyko and
drawn by Bendis in the late 1990s. Bendis has since gone on
to become one of the top writers in comics, with
acclaimed runs on Daredevil and Ultimate
Spider-Man. Several of his creator-owned comics are in
development around town, including Jinx, which
is set up at Universal Pictures with Charlize Theron
attached. Andreyko has received acclaim for his gritty
(and gay-inclusive) Manhunter title at DC Comics.
Torso first was optioned by Spawn creator
McFarlane, and Murphy came aboard later to give the
project traction. Murphy went to Mechanic, who brought
in Fincher. Fincher directed Fight Club for
Mechanic when Mechanic was head of 20th Century Fox.
Kruger's credits include The Ring and The
Ring Two, The Skeleton Key, and Arlington
Road. Fincher is well-acquainted with the serial
killer underworld, having directed the cult hit
Seven. He is shooting Zodiac, starring Jake
Gyllenhaal, about a 1970s San Francisco serial killer,
which will be distributed domestically by Paramount.
Torso will be Fincher's third movie for
Paramount, behind Zodiac and the in-development
fantasy-drama Benjamin Button. (Borys Kit,
Reuters, with additional reporting from Advocate.com)
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