Very Bad News
New Line has acquired screen rights to "Black Dahlia Avenger," a book by ex-L.A. homicide detective Steve Hodel about his investigation into Hollywood's most infamous unsolved crime reports Variety.
Hodel, on a quest to discover who his father really was, came up with a picture of a brilliant, charming, Hannibal Lecter-like villain he believes may have killed a dozen people including aspiring actress Elizabeth Short who was found cut in half and posed in a bizarre manner.
What makes the deal surprising is that the announcement comes two weeks before the release of Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia", an adaptation of the James Ellroy novel about the same incident. Ellroy in fact wrote the intro to Hodel's book.
Ralph Pezzullo is set to write the script.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060825c.php
Why? Why Why WHY?!?
Why not go all the way and adapt Severed while you're at it?
Hodel, on a quest to discover who his father really was, came up with a picture of a brilliant, charming, Hannibal Lecter-like villain he believes may have killed a dozen people including aspiring actress Elizabeth Short who was found cut in half and posed in a bizarre manner.
What makes the deal surprising is that the announcement comes two weeks before the release of Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia", an adaptation of the James Ellroy novel about the same incident. Ellroy in fact wrote the intro to Hodel's book.
Ralph Pezzullo is set to write the script.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060825c.php
Why? Why Why WHY?!?
Why not go all the way and adapt Severed while you're at it?