British filmmaker Rupert Sanders is in talks to helm “The Low Dweller,” a film which centers on a Midwestern man who gets out of prison only to be haunted and pursued by a figure from his past.
Compared to “No Country For Old Men,” the project will produced Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Prods. and was subject to a bidding war last year when the Brad Ingelsby script was shopped around and eventually sold to Relativity and MGM for a seven figure sum. It also placed fifth on 2008’s Black List of best-liked unproduced screenplays. [THR]