David Fincher, the studio-friendly auteur behind the ultimate homoerotic fistfight flick, “Fight Club” as well as the director behind this year’s Brad Pitt starring Oscar bait, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” is reported to have the adaption of the true-crime graphic novel, “Torso” in line as his next project.
In an interview with Collider producer Bill Mechanic, the man developing the project said that if everything works out, “Torso” will indeed be Fincher’s next film. “If everything goes according to schedule, it would be the next thing up.” Although it does sound as if the film is not a lock, even though they have a script penned by Ehren Kruger, they are, “waiting for Paramount to decide to make it.” A few months ago we reported that there were rumors suggesting that Matt Damon was being considered for the role of Eliot Ness, the famous detective who put away Al Capone and was played by Kevin Kostner in “The Untouchables.” Mechanic seemed to confirm those rumors being saying, “a lot of things that are being written about who’s in it are probably true.”
The graphic novel, “Torso” follows the newly minted Cleveland Chief of police, Eliot Ness, as he struggles to deal with multiple Torso’s that have washed up on shore due to a serial killer who has been dismembering bodies of its victims and dumping them into Lake Erie. The novel is based off the actual Cleavland torso murders which took place in the 1930’s. Serial Killer material isn’t new to Fincher, who also directed the wonderful 1995 thriller “Se7en.” We hope having Matt Damon attached gets this thing off the ground sooner rather than later.
Sounds like a good companion piece to Zodiac. Ehren Kruger’s name doesn’t instill a whole lot of confidence, but Fincher usually manages to get the best out of his writers.
I like this news. Out of all the “next Fincher projects,” this is the one I wanted to actually be next. I love the Eliot Ness character from The Untouchables, and think it would be cool to see him re-appear in another film. Especially a dark gritty one by Fincher. It could end his serial killer trilogy. But it might be tough to find a different style to tell the story than the ones he’s previously used on Se7en and Zodiac. It could end his serial killer trilogy. It would be nice to see if he could strike a Silence of the Lambs vibe,the pinnacle of the serial killers movies imo. Se7en was almost to grim and dark, and Zodiac is like the JFK of serial killer films in its detail.