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Simon Baker vs. Casey Affleck in 'The Killer Inside Me'
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Hold up. No one told me about the adaptation of Jim Thompson's classic The Killer Inside Me. A true '50s noir, Thompson's book is a bite-your-nails tale about a Texas sheriff's deputy who is also the town murderer. He's calm and cool on the outside and a brutal killer on the inside. And yes, it's also a song by MC 900 FT Jesus.I'm down with that, since the younger and less chinny Affleck proved his chops in Gone Baby Gone and The Assassination of Jesse Ford by the Coward Robert Ford, although IMDb pro also lists him as the director of "Untitled Joaquin Phoenix Documentary," so we've got him to thank for that sh*tshow. Bill Pullman and awesomely creepy Elias Koteas (Crash) also star.
On the other hand, the rest of the cast is a uneven, and this particular adaptation has quite the long back story. Kate Hudson plays Lou's good-girl girlfriend Amy Stanton, while Jessica Alba is Joyce Lakeland, a prostitute who digs Lou's ugly side. And then there's Simon Baker, star of TV's "The Mentalist" and films like Sex and Death 101 and The Devil Wears Prada, Something New, Land of the Dead, and The Ring Two, as the small-town lawyer out to get Lou.
Jessica Alba Finally Gets to Play a Hooker
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You know, I'm not trying to be crude, but if your average small town prostitute looked anything like Jessica Alba, the world's oldest profession could probably give the modeling industry a run for its money. Variety reports that Alba has signed to play a small town hooker in Michael Winterbottom's noir thriller, The Killer Inside Me. Killer is based on the novel by Jim Thompson, and Robert Weinbach and John Curran (The Painted Veil) have already written the adaptation. Back in 1976, Stacy Keach had starred in a feature film version of the novel about "a West Texas sheriff and his downward spiral from a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer." This time Casey Affleck will pick up where Keach left off as the sheriff, and Alba will play the role of a small town hooker. Now to be fair, I'm trying really hard not to think back to all those interviews where Alba turned her nose up at roles that traded on her sexuality; you know, like playing hookers....or strippers.
Killer is just the latest in Alba's crusade to finally be taken seriously as an actress, and frankly, she could use the help. Between her last summer flop, The Love Guru, and lackluster reviews for her work in Awake and The Eye, it's not like great parts are being offered left and right. Hopefully Killer will change all that, because if the career trajectory of your average starlet has taught us anything, it's that playing a hooker is usually one of the first steps on the road to being an actor with a capital 'A'. Well, that and looking unattractive, but I guess that's what her upcoming role in An Invisible Sign of My Own is for.
Marc Rocco To Tackle The Killer Inside Me
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After helming films like Dream a Little Dream (Haim, Feldman!) and Murder in the First (Slater, Bacon!), writer-producer-director Marc Rocco disappeared for ten years before popping up with a co-producer and story credit on The Jacket back in 2005. Now, Variety reports Rocco is making his big-screen comeback with an adaptation of the Jim Thompson noir novel The Killer Inside Me, which he'll direct from a script written by Robert Weinbach.
The book, which was published all the way back in 1952, follows a West Texas deputy sheriff who's the kind of guy you want to invite over for a barbecue and a beer, until it's slowly revealed that he's actually a psychotic killer. Yikes. Since the novel was first published way back when, Rocco is looking forward to updating the story so that it takes place in a post-9/11 world. He hopes to begin filming this fall, assuming they can get this puppy cast ... with at least one Corey lending their acting talents, one would hope. Hey, a guy can dream, right?
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