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The Killer Inside Me
Surprise, surprise. It looks like Hollywood took a little break this January with novel acquisitions for adaptation. Marc Rocco is now hoping to curb this recent trend with The Killer Inside Me.
Rocco Finds The Killer Inside Me
Marc Rocco will direct an adaptation of the Jim Thompson noir novel The Killer Inside Me.
Published in 1952, The Killer Inside Me concerns a deputy sheriff in a West Texas town whose kind Everyman demeanor masks his true dark self. He is slowly revealed as a psychotic killer.
Rocco is finalizing the financing for the project in hopes for a fall start. What about casting? Nobody has been picked up just yet, but any delays could push back Rocco's hopes of placing the project on the fast track.
"I loved the idea of filming a beautiful small town and adding an antihero who is right out of the films of the 1970s," Rocco said. "We will put him into a post-9/11 world, and one interesting layer to the script is how much technology has changed the definition of a small town."
The Killer Inside Me was set up several years ago at Paramount, with duo Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner producing with Marc Frydmann. The project now has Cyclone Prods. set to produce with Robert Weinbach and Chris Hanley.
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