Paul Greengrass To Tackle Post-Untouchables True Crime Tale, NESS, For Paramount
Brian De Palma’s 1987 crime thriller, The Untouchables, is a longtime favorite for almost any cinephile who loves a good Prohibition era flick. There was even a television show that transpired in the U.S. back in the 1990s that I liked, both inspired by the 1957 book of the same name, and interestingly, other artists and authors have taken its foremost character and even advanced his story even further. Thus, it now appears that Paramount Pictures is back and reviving the character once more according to a new report at Deadline with word of the new film, Ness. Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential) is reteaming with Bourne franchise helmer (a la Supremacy) Paul Greengrass for a story that updates our title lawman’s tale, taking cues from the Image Comics 1998/99 publication, Torso, by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko. Torso tells the story of the real life “Torso Murderer”, a serial […]