Sunday
21Dec2008
Fincher's 'Torso' "A Complete Re-Imagining"
Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 11:41PM
A few weeks ago,
the future
looked a little bleak for the film adaptation of the graphic novel,
Torso, by Brian Bendis and Marc Andreyko. The word was that with
David Fincher
climbing aboard a Keanu Reeves movie about a chef, which Fincher describes as "a
celibate sex comedy," Paramount had a deadline for the project that Fincher
wouldn't be able to meet.
“Certainly from a stylistic standpoint it will be Bendis’ world," Fincher added, "but from a story standpoint, it’s not just Ness in the moment. It’s not a linear chronology. It’s more like Rashomon or Citizen Kane. It’s an exploded version of it.”
And then he gets, well, Finchy on us. "Maybe this is my own cynical nature but I feel like most of the time people speak it’s to position an understanding," the director continued. "I’m less interested in what characters say in a movie than what their faces look like while they’re saying it. I’m always more interested in how people lie than how they tell the truth.”
Sure...uh...OK. Incidentally, the last update still has Matt Damon playing Elliot Ness, and let's not forget that Fincher steered two of the all-time great serial killer movies, so even though he's never made a comic book film before, this is still kind of up his alley.
Reader Comments (3)
I love Brian Bendis' artwork in The Immortal Iron Fist. I had heard (hear I believe) that there is an adaptation in the works starring Ray Park. Any truth to that rumor? Matched with Fincher's compulsions, and Matt Damon's malleable nature, we should have a good picture on our hands with Ness.
Also, there might be one man capable of making Keanu Reeves cool again, and that man is David Fincher. Reeves needs alot of sculpting (something the Wachowskis were able to accomplish in the Matrix movies). Reeves will be shaped well with Fincher's OCD.
Still, have Fincher OR Reeves made a decent comedy??? Scary.
Loved "The Replacements"!
Brian Bendis is a writer, not an artist (although he may have done some art early in his career, I'm not sure), so he didn't have any artwork in The Immortal Iron Fist. But, Iron Fist is an amazing comic, and a film adaptation is a great idea. Also Ray Park would be very capable of or, at least has the action skills to, play Iron Fist. And I have been hoping for a movie about the Torso murders to come out for a long time, and now that it is coming out it's being done by a great director, based on writing by an excellent author.