Director Brad Anderson has lined up an adaptation of the one-off comic The Living and the Dead by writers Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell, and artist Micah Farritor. Thanks to Mania for the scoring the news. The synopsis for the comic follows:
You are a simple, country doctor in a small village. You have a beautiful wife and a wonderful son – the perfect life. Only they don’t know that in your past, you did a very bad thing! People died because of it, and you were forced to flee and live incognito. Now, in an opportunity to redeem yourself, you unwittingly unleash a brutal and perverse murderer, a deviant sociopath hell bent on using innocent people in a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood – a veritable nineteenth-century snuff theater. You alone can end his reign of sick terror – but at the risk of revealing your secret past and losing everything you love. Only you don’t know what’s worse – what you’ve created – or what you have to do to stop him!
Brad Anderson’s previously directed such noteworthy films as Session 9, The Machinist and Transsiberian. He’s also found some success directing several episodes of Fringe, including last season’s great finale. As far as I’m concerned, he’s among the relatively undiscovered major talent out there that just needs a hit and some funding to really strike out. Anything with his name on it grabs my attention.
Anderson just began shooting Vanishing on 7th Street, a psychological thriller dealing with four people who band together after the rest of mankind disappears. John Leguizamo, Thandie Newton and Hayden Christensen star in that one.
