David Fincher is reported to be looking at another true story of the now famous Elliot Ness called Torso. Originally a true story, then a graphic novel, and soon to be a movie, but will it star Costner and Connery?!
Kidding aside the news from The Hollywood Reporter is that he’s “clearing his schedule” right now for…
…a thriller based on a graphic novel written by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andrey-ko, 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’ 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.
I’d never heard of this before and I can hardly believe it’s taken this long after Untouchables to unearth this tale and bring it to the movies, and through a graphic novel. After the success of that first Ness picture wouldn’t you check out his history for anything else interesting?
Good tale it does sound anyway, and if they can recapture the atmosphere of that original, combined with the slightly askew genius of Fincher, it sounds a fantastic idea.
