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.