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Brian Michael Bendis Says Torso Still Lives

by | October 23, 2009

Summary

Paramount had David Fincher and Matt Damon attached to an adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis' "Torso" graphic novel, then let the project go up in smoke -- but as Bendis recently told MTV, there might be hope for a "Torso" movie yet. Back to Article

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Gordon Franklin Terry Sr writes:
on Oct 23 2009 04:21 AM

NO, not the CLASSIC 1973 Italian giallo TORSO (aka I CORPI PRESENTANO TRACCE DI VIOLENZA CARNALE) but a grapic-novel entitled TORSO.

Bloody good old time we should expect here as

"Torso tells the story of the real life "Torso Murderer", a serial killer who was active during 1934 to 1938. He received his nickname because he left only the torsos of his victims."

Hopefully it will not be as bad as FROM HELL (or maybe FROM HELL is good; I thought FROM HELL, adapted from another graphic novel about a serial killer Jack The Ripper was bad).

AND the filmmakers better not "chicken-out" with TORSO like the filmmakers of FROM HELL "chickened-out."

FROM HELL was supposed to tell the story from JACK THE RIPPER'S demented view yet in order to "make the film accessible to a wide audience" they made it out to be another detective chases crimminal film (nothing new).

Let the audience find TORSO rather than make TORSO "have to please a wide audience"

Even if the fimmakers have to film "TORSO-The Graphic Novel" in their backyard and neighbor's mansion in order to achieve the level or brutal intensity needed for the movie, they should do it.

It seems with many perennially-successful horror flims, the filmmakers went ahead with what little money they could scrape together and shot and spliced together the images They wanted to see.

But to always "Go Hollywood" and to always "need to capture a wide audience" will water-down TORSO to the point where its another "period-piece about a detective chancing a homicidal serial killer"

Hey, Make a movie about HOWARD UNRUH who killed 13 people in CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY (1949). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh

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