Tom Cruise stars as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg in Bryan Singer's VALKYRIE(2008).
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UA and Cruise Adapting Preston's MONSTER
By: Jarrod SarafinDate: Friday, September 05, 2008
Source: Variety
The inspiration behind Hannibal is getting another treatment for the big screen with Tom Cruise and United Artists overseeing production. The two have acquired rights to The Monster of Florence with plans to adapt it into a movie, says Variety. Cruise will executive produce and perhaps star in the vehicle.
Author Douglas Preston (The Relic) and Italian journalist Mario Spezi told Corriere della Sera they have signed with UA for a big-screen adaptation of their reconstruction of eight grisly double homicides believed to have been committed single-handedly between 1968 and 1985 in and around the Italian Renaissance gem.
"The film will have Florence and the Chianti as protagonists: two of the locations most beloved by Americans," said Spezi, a Florentine crime reporter and "Monster" contributor.
Spezi said the script will be written by Chris McQuarrie, who recently wrote Cruise's next thriller Valkyrie.
The "Monster of Florence" case had previously inspired the Thomas Harris sequel "Hannibal."
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