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Kytice su češki, ne poljski film.  
Imamo i mi dosta sličnih etno pričica i bajki kao u Divljem cveću. Najbolji primer je priča o dečaku koji odlučuje da ostane pod vodom jer mu Vodeni kralj sve pruža, kada dečak, ipak, shvati da mu nedostaju roditelji i odluči da ga napusti. U filmu devojka ostavlja muža pod vodom i vraća se majci (ok, čini mi se majci).

Where the Truth Lies, Atom Egoyan.

A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup, years earlier, of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused, the incident put an end to their act.
 
Kevin Bacon ....  Lanny Morris
Colin Firth ....  Vince Collins
Alison Lohman ....  Karen O'Connor
Sonja Bennett ....  Bonnie Trout
Rachel Blanchard ....  Maureen O'Flaherty
Kathryn Winslow ....  Coreen


The MPAA's appeals board has refused to lift an NC-17 rating for Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies even after the director made additional cuts in an effort to have the highly restrictive rating reversed. Egoyan had previously acknowledged that the scene most responsible for the rating, a ménage à trois involving co-stars Kevin Bacon and Rachel Blanchard, was shot in a single take that could not be cut and was essential to the movie's plot. "We couldn't trim any more without destroying the heart of the movie," Egoyan told the Hollywood Reporter Thursday. The film's distributor, ThinkFilm, said it would now release the original uncut version that screened last May at the Cannes film festival. (It is also scheduled to be screened at the Toronto Film Festival next week.) "The good news is the film will go out as it was originally intended," said Egoyan. In a statement, Robert Lantos, the film's producer and the chairman of ThinkFilm, said: "This film stars some of the most talented actors in the movies today, is based on a popular mainstream novel and is written and directed by a filmmaker known for his artistic integrity and achievement. Where the Truth Lies has not encountered this kind of restrictive rating anywhere else in the free world."

Quote from: "Morticia"Kytice su češki, ne poljski film.  

jel jeste?    inace mi je omiljena tu ona pricica sa Babarogom koja odnosi dete od one nervozne majke.

A stop-motion-animated musical inspired by the Manson family crimes has scored a theatrical run says The Hollywood Reporter.

Wellspring said Thursday that it has acquired all North American rights to director John Roecker's "Live Freaky! Die Freaky!" which boasts a voice cast headed by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Tim Armstrong of Rancid and Operation Ivy.

"Freaky" tells the tale of a young man (voiced by Billie Joe Armstrong) in the year 3069 who discovers a copy of Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry's "Helter Skelter," which described the murders committed in the '60s by Charles Manson and his followers. Treating the book as a biblical text and adopting Manson as a messiah, the young man preaches a better world through "music, murder and mayhem".

Canadian auteur David Cronenberg juggling Bruce Wagner screenplay Map To The Stars and long-gestating London Fields which UGC has recently boarded.

Warner Bros. has officially set "Constantine" helmer Francis Lawrence to direct "I Am Legend", finally putting the long awaited film adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel on a fast track into production reports Variety.

Mark Protosevich wrote the script for the film which has been on and off in development for a decade with Ridley Scott and Arnold Schwarzenegger at one time involved, Michael Bay and Will Smith at another. The film has previously hit the screen twice before - 1964's "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price, and 1976's "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston.

Set in Los Angeles after a biological war, the pic centers on the sole healthy survivor, a man who finds himself in a battle against nocturnal mutants. Pic will undergo a rewrite under the supervision of Lawrence, who is eyeing a 2006 start date.

David Cronenberg ("A History of Violence") revealed to Screen Daily that he is developing Bruce Wagner's original screenplay "Maps to the Stars". On top of that his long-gestating "London Fields" project, based on Martin Amis' 1991 novel, is moving forward as a Canada/France/UK co-production. Finally he confirmed that he has abandoned his proposed sci-fi thriller "Painkillers".

Meanwhile, Andrew Niccol ("Lord of War", "Gattaca") told Suicide Girls he is not writing the movie "Paani" for "Elizabeth" director Shekar Kapur - "Shekhar Kapur is a friend of mine and he went to Cannes one time and he wanted to raise money for a party. So he said, 'Andrew Niccol is going to write this for me' [laughs]. Then I'm sure they gave him a lot of money but afterwards it appeared on the Internet."

Far more cryptic were comments from French Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amelie", "A Very Long Engagement") who confirmed to Canal Plus that he is working with an American studio for his next movie which "will be an adaptation of a beautiful novel set 'on the sea'". Pressed for more detail, he would only confirm its not "Moby Dick" anyway.

Quote from: "crip"Warner Bros. has officially set "Constantine" helmer Francis Lawrence to direct "I Am Legend", finally putting the long awaited film adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel on a fast track into production reports Variety.

Mark Protosevich wrote the script for the film which has been on and off in development for a decade with Ridley Scott and Arnold Schwarzenegger at one time involved, Michael Bay and Will Smith at another. The film has previously hit the screen twice before - 1964's "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price, and 1976's "The Omega Man" with Charlton Heston.

Set in Los Angeles after a biological war, the pic centers on the sole healthy survivor, a man who finds himself in a battle against nocturnal mutants. Pic will undergo a rewrite under the supervision of Lawrence, who is eyeing a 2006 start date.

Hvala Kripe na ovim vestima.

Bome, lepa je pročitati da su konačno rešili da kreče. Protoševićev scenario, koji se može naći na Internetu, meni se veoma dopao, a sad ostaje da vidimo egzekuciju.

Ninja title Shinobi set for US remake  
Off Road Pictures - the corporate home of the Wachowski brothers - expresses interest in remaking upcoming ninja action title

trejler: http://www.artistviewent.com/horror/Ice%20Queen/Icequeen.wmv

   

Vincent Cassel will play Jacques Mesrine, France's former Public Enemy No. 1, in a two-part project set to begin shooting next summer with Jean-Francois Richet directing from a script by Abdel Raouf Dafri says The Hollywood Reporter.

The two French-language films, with a total budget of $53.6 million, entitled "Death Instinct" and "Public Enemy Number One," are based on the true story of a French criminal known for his clever disguises, womanizing and audacious bank robberies and jail-breaks.

Born to a prosperous family in 1937, Mesrine became a legend in his lifetime, reportedly wearing designer clothes and displaying impeccable courtesy to those he robbed.

Nikad! I ozbiljno ne mogu da verujem da iko čeka kinga konga! Zašto! Zašto!?

Zbog Jacka Blacka.

He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe.Moj omiljeni lik iz detinjstva!

Zbog Naomi Watts

Quote from: "Ghoul"

joj... kako lepa slikica

elem, ja.. prvo zbog filma, jelte.. drugo, khmm, ili prvo, zbog Adrien Brodyja

Quote from: "Black Mamba"
elem, ja.. prvo zbog filma, jelte.. drugo, khmm, ili prvo, zbog Adrien Brodyja

ja mislim da si ti prva, ako ne i poslednja, ženska osoba koja se loži na njega..

ja se lozim samo na posebne likove vaistinu, jednom sam rekla kako u principu ne podnosim takve tipove -- ni sama ne znam odkud mi se toliko svidja njegova pojava... ali fakat je skroz izuzetak

Rogue Pictures has joined forces with L.A.-based Crystal Sky Pictures to back "Doomsday," the $15 million-$20 million next project from British writer-director Neil Marshall ("Dog Soldiers", "The Descent") reports Variety.

"Doomsday" is described as a futuristic action thriller with political overtones, set in northern England and Scotland. A disaster threatens the future of mankind, and a team of people have to stop it.

Rogue, which is taking worldwide rights to the pic, is bankrolling development of the script under an aggressive deal to move rapidly toward production next spring in the UK.

FEED

just got to see this movie at the Fantasy Film Festival in Nuremberg and I was pretty astonished how many people actually wanted to see it. Cinema was nearly sold out and I think people got what they were looking for. It's a nice little thriller about a disgusting fetish. The audience gets to see everything. Puking fat women, sex with 600 pound women and some even more disgusting things that I do not want to mention here. But this movie has its weaknesses. Started from the tolerable but ridiculous "computer hacking" scenes in which "dir windows" kind of traces people all over the world, to an ending which is just not plausible. The movie tries to narrate a possibly real story and the ending seems to be misplaced. But as the topic said it's fascinating to see how far humans can go, although the movie exaggerates this a bit too much in my opinion. Acting was quite okay, story has its flaws, but all in all, I'd recommend this movie, because this is one of the movies you will certainly talk about after-wards. 6 of 10, not only for breaking some taboos.


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GORE:
The obese and naked chicks in this film actually MADE ME want to go on a diet. I know it isn't politically correct to say this but hey that's how I felt...FREAKING GROSS MAN! We also get a cut off penis frying in a pan, human remains, a messy kick in the face, minor cannibalism, some blood and more that I won't mention in the name of not ruining it for ya. What the film suggests tagged with what it showed will make you squirm in your seat like a worm on a hook
T & A:
This uncut version gave it all up for the whole family! Gorgeous tits, sweet female asses, obese tits, obese snatches, men's asses, men's ding-dongs...you want it, crave it, yearn for it...its in here...until the censors get their scissors in there that is...
DIRECTING:
Leonard went buck wild on this buckaroo, slapping in colorful filters, quick cuts, ambitious stylish shots, insane montages and zany angles all over the place. Although I felt he went overboard in places, his directing style matched his content's pedal to the f*cking floor demeanor. Dynamic, oppressive and insane!

ime prve djevojke koju nisam uspio zbariti    



stoga očekujem film nestrpljivo    

Fox has tapped Skip Woods ("Swordfish", "Thursday") to adapt its feature version of vidgame "Hitman," with Vin Diesel toplining reports Variety.

Studio picked up the Eidos vidgame franchise in June from producers Chuck Gordon and Adrian Askarieh. Diesel will exec produce. First three games in the "Hitman" franchise have sold more than 5 million units.

The story centers on an international assassin, known as Agent 47, who works for a mysterious org dubbed the Agency.

Thanks to 'Veronica'

Donald Sutherland and Samantha Morton will headline Irish feature "Puffball" from British director Nicolas Roeg reports Production Weekly.

An adaptation of Fay Weldon's 1980 novel of the same name, the haunting thriller is the story of Liffey (Morton) and her husband Richard, whose lives are almost destroyed by infidelity, the paranormal and bad weather when they purchase a remote, dilapidated cottage in the English countryside.

Dan Weldon adapted his mother's book into a script and filming is starting in January at locations around the Monaghan/Armagh border.

Thanks to 'This'

Universal has bought a sci-fi pitch from Simon Kinberg ("Mr. and Mrs. Smith") and Brett Matthews (TV's "Firefly"). Details on the thriller are being kept under wraps for now, but pic will be written by Matthews. Kinberg wouldn't elaborate on the story except to say, "It's more thriller than big, broad action; more gritty than other sci-fi movies we've seen in the recent past. Almost what 'Bourne Identity' did for action movies, this will attempt to do for sci-fi movies"..."

Universal has bought a sci-fi pitch from Simon Kinberg ("Mr. and Mrs. Smith") and Brett Matthews (TV's "Firefly"). Details on the thriller are being kept under wraps for now, but pic will be written by Matthews. Kinberg wouldn't elaborate on the story except to say, "It's more thriller than big, broad action; more gritty than other sci-fi movies we've seen in the recent past. Almost what 'Bourne Identity' did for action movies, this will attempt to do for sci-fi movies"..."

Ron Perlman has signed on to voice Conan of Cimmeria for Swordplay Entertainment's "Conan: Red Nails," the first animated film featuring the mythic barbarian says The Hollywood Reporter.

Marg Helgenberger and James Marsden also are joining the voice cast, which includes Clancy Brown, Cree Summer and Mark Hamill.

The film will be directed by Victor Dal Chele, with a screenplay by Steve Gold and Timothy Dolan.

Quote from: "crippled_avenger"Donald Sutherland and Samantha Morton will headline Irish feature "Puffball" from British director Nicolas Roegreports Production Weekly.

An adaptation of Fay Weldon's 1980 novel of the same name, the haunting thriller is the story of Liffey (Morton) and her husband Richard, whose lives are almost destroyed by infidelity, the paranormal and bad weather when they purchase a remote, dilapidated cottage in the English countryside.

holy molly!
jedva čekam da vidim da li roeg ima još jedan DON'T LOOK NOW u sebi!

Hostel

"Pierce Brosnan is taking on the gritty role of a kidnapper who pulls a family apart in the indie thriller "Butterfly on a Wheel". Mike Barker will direct the Icon Entertainment pic which centers on a happy couple with a seemingly perfect life whose daughter is abducted. Over the course of a day, the kidnapper dismantles the family's lives with brutal efficiency. A February start is skedded, with locations in Canada and Chicago..." (full details)

"Bruce Willis is set to star in "Black Water Transit," a Doug Richardson-scripted adaptation of the Carsten Stroud novel that will mark the feature directorial debut of Samuel Bayer. Shooting starts in March. "Black Water Transit" follows the divergent agendas of criminals, cops and lawyers as they collide over a shipment of illegal firearms and a double homicide. Willis plays Earl Pike, a criminal who tries to get his family's illegal gun collection to a safe haven..." (full details)

John McTiernan is attached to direct action adventure Crash Bandits for Bauer Martinez and thriller Deadly Exchange for Film Bridge International.

Some news from the world of crazy-man Alex De la Iglesia (800 BALAS, EL CRIMEN FERPECTO, ACCION MUTANTE, DAY OF THE BEAST to name a few). I love Iglesia's films... he's got this amazing darkly comedic tint he puts on everything that works so damn well. He's now doing an English language flick based on the novel OXFORD MURDERS by Guillermo Martinez, retitled OXFORD CRIMES. At the Seville European Film Festival, Iglesia spilled some info on it, which Variety got ahold of. It's about a serial killer who specializes in murders so subtle that many go unrecognized.

...ovaj sjajni ontoloshki krimic je kod nas obavljen pochetkom oktobra(LAGUNA) pod nazivom NEPRIMETNI ZLOCHINI(shto je i tachan prevod!),a vredelo bi obratiti paznju na kod nas zastupljene starije prevode kratkih romana GIJERMA MARTINEZA-'POVEST O RODERERU' i 'MAESTROVA SUPRUGA'(oba izdanja SVETOVA iz Novog Sada)!
...jedva chekam da vidim shta ce CRKVENJAKOV da napravi od toga....everybody's thumbs up za Aleksu!!!!!

The Whispering Of The Gods (Germania No Yoru)

 
  Mark Schilling in Tokyo 03 November 2005
 


Dir: Tatsushi Omori. Jap. 2005. 107mins.

An unblinking plunge into depravity, blasphemy and violence, set in the idyllic confines of a Catholic monastery, Tatsushi Omori's debut feature The Whispering Of The Gods falls squarely into the love-it-or-loathe-it category.

Screened in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival, it evoked fervent praise from some - Japanese film scholar Donald Richie called it "the most powerful Japanese film I have seen during 2005" - and equally fervent damnation from others. It came away from TIFF without a prize, but producer Genjiro Arato hopes take it to other festivals - beginning with Berlin - and open it in Tokyo on December 17.

How confident is Arato of success with this film by first-time director Tatsushi Omori? Well, he has built a theatre for it in central Tokyo, vowed to screen it there for six months, come what may, and release it nowhere else in Japan.

Is he deluded - or a cock-eyed optimist? Neither - beginning in 1980 with Seijun Suzuki's Zigeunerweisen, which he screened in an inflatable tent-dome, Arato has proven himself an imaginative and tireless promoter, able to transform even the knottiest arthouse fare into hits.

He is also an acclaimed director, with his latest film, the 2003 drama Akame 48 Waterfalls, scooping nearly 30 awards at home.

Though filmed in rural Iwate Prefecture and based on a prize-winning story by Mangetsu Hanamura, The Whispering Of The Gods has a borderless, timeless, fabulistic feel, relying more on iconic images and gestures than words for its impact.

At the same time, it leaves its various crimes and acts open to interpretation, suggesting - but not insisting. It will thus be a hard sell, not only to fans of The Passion Of The Christ, but also anyone who prefers clearly defined heroes, villains and resolutions.

That said, the very strength of the reactions it provokes, as well as the uncompromising quality of Omori's direction (lead actress Leona Hirota described the shoot to the press at TIFF as a "hell" in which she came down with pneumonia, damaged her liver and broke two bones), will raise The Whispering Of The Gods above the arthouse run. Given the support of key critics and the right word-of-mouth, it could join the list of Arato's other success de scandals.

At the centre of the film is the unreadable face and explosive presence of Rou (Hirofumi Ari), a killer of two strangers, who returns to the Catholic monastery and orphanage where he was raised to escape the police and revisit his past. One price of refuge is to masturbate Father Komiya, while the latter reads the Bible in Latin - and a dog looks on inquisitively. This, we are given to understand, has been Rou's fate since boyhood.

Another price is to bring slops to the monastery's pigs and shovel the droppings of its hundreds of chickens. When smarmy farm manager Ukawa (Nao Omori) assigns Rou the former and walks away whistling, Rou remembers, and later beats and kicks Ukawa into a snivelling, broken-toothed heap.

More outrages are to come, including sex with a young novice (Megumi Sawara), the attempted rape of a nun (Leona Hirota) and a blasphemous confession that drives Rou's elderly mentor, Father Togawa (Kei Togawa), to despair - and death.

Meanwhile Rou attracts a pretty teenage boy, another of Father Komiya's victims, and a pudgy scoutmaster (Genta Dairaku). Rou, we see, is not just another sociopath, indulging appetites and urges at will, but a twisted seeker after a private truth, who no longer trusts words - only deeds. He does not so much destroy as expose hidden desires and decay.

Making ample use of long cuts and pauses, Omori gives each of his shots an elemental solidity and emotional weight. Despite a deliberate pace - as seen with the black cattle that clump single file through the snow during the powerful opening - he keeps the tension high, mainly because his hero is such a volatile enigma.

Hirofumi Arai plays the protagonist with little outward expression, yet possesses with an inner force that makes his very blankness eloquent.

The photography by Ryo Otsuka (Akame 48 Falls) has an Old Master richness, as in the scene of Sister Theresa cutting vegetables, looking like a subject for Vermeer. But when the violent or erotic occasion calls for it, beauty gives way to an appropriate starkness.

What are the gods whispering? Like every other element of this disturbing, provocative film, their message is up to the audience to parse. But first, like Father Komiya's dog, it has to cock its ears - and listen.

Production companies
Neoplex Inc
Arato Film Inc

Japanese distribution/international sales
Arato Film

General producer
Genjiro Arato
Executive producer
Akihiro Maeda

Producer
Shinichiro Muraoka

Screenplay
Yoshio Urasawa

Cinematography
Ryo Otsuka

Production design
Koichi Kanekatsu

Editor
Yoshiyuki Okuhara

Music
Shuichi Chino

Main cast
Hirofumi Arai
Leona Hirota
Megumi Sawara
Nao Omori
Renji Ishibashi
Kei Sato
Genta Dairaku

ginger toxiqo 2 gafotas wrote:
...jedva chekam da vidim shta ce CRKVENJAKOV da napravi od toga....everybody's thumbs up za Aleksu!!!!!

Kakve veze sa tim ima Crkvenjakov???
Zar nije on samo spiker vesti na pinku?

..da pojasnim-kada bi radili ono shto se inache ne radi,a pri tom mislim na prevodjenja imena-Alex De La Iglesia bi tada bio Aleksandar Crkvenjakov jer 'iglesia' na shpanskom znachi 'crkva' a sufiks chest na prechanskim prezimenima 'ov' bi manje-vishe odgovarao ovom shpanskom 'De La',a Alex je,valjda tu nema spora,ekvivalent nashem Aleksandru,Aleksi...whatever!

Slican je slucaj sa italijanskim fudbalerom Enrico Chiesom...

PAN'S LABYRINTH





me loves it!

me too loves it....imas li sto vise o tome

Jamie Kennedy is set to star in the feature film Kickin It Old Skool for director Harvey Glazer, reports Production Weekly.

Kennedy will play Justin, an average pre-teen growing up in the mid-80's until a freak break dancing accident lands him in a coma. When he finally comes to, it is nearly twenty years later, and he must now learn to cope with the changes the world has gone through.

Shooting is scheduled to begin mid-January in Vancouver.

Dread Central reports that Director Tony Kaye ("American History X") is now no longer attached to Media 8's "The Reaper".

Media 8 first attached Kaye to the project over the summer. As recent as the American Film Market, Kaye was quoted as saying that his intention, with Reaper, was to "redefine the genre." I'm not certain what has happened since then, but Media 8's now looking for a new helmer.

"Reaper" is the story of an ex-private investigator dying of cancer who is making every effort to find his abducted daughter before he finally gives in to the Big C. He strikes up a deal with the Grim Reaper itself: if he's allowed to live just a little bit longer to find his kid, he promises to find a few rogue souls who managed to cheat death..

novi Timur Bekmambetov!

greenlightovan follow up SHAUN OF THE DEAD

Wolf Creek

ovo izgleda neche biti loshe

Dreamworks will release "Typhoon," the most expensive Korean film ever made, in North America next year. It has pacted with South Korean major CJ Entertainment for the multilanguage pic, helmed by K.T. Kwak, about a modern-day pirate planning a massive attack on North and South Korea. Pic is the first Korean feature released by a U.S. major..."

FIDO, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457572/combined

Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out.

OK, now let`s start anticipating!!!

Chuck Russell's PIRANHA remake enters a different Dimension!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with an update on Chuck Russell's new fangled redux of Joe Dante's PIRANHA. I'm a big fan of that flick, but I'm also a big fan of Chuck Russell's work on '80s horror staples NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS and THE BLOB remake. If he can make the PIRANHA remake half as good as he made the BLOB remake, then us horror hounds will be really damn happy.
However, the project is probably doomed. Dimension Films is handling the domestic distribution of the flick now, which is the death call for most genre pics. Hopefully this'll be one of the good ones. I'm certainly pulling for it. What about you?

Torso... Torso!... TORSO!!! Fincher... Fincher!... FINCHER!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here... sorry for the headline... those cheesy '70s import horror trailer fans out there will get it... all 7 of you. But it is true... there's a project called TORSO that is being adapted by Ehren Kruger (boo, hiss) from a graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko and David Fincher's name is being mentioned as directing the thing. The story was based on the true story of Eliot Ness (yeah, the UNTOUCHABLES guy) and what happened to him after he moved out of Chicago to become a public safety officer in Cleveland. Ness pulls together a team to track down a serial murderer who keeps dumping the torsos of his victims in the river.
This sounds right up Fincher's alley, what with ZODIAC and SEVEN already under his belt. Sounds like a sweet fuckin' movie to me (if Kruger can deliver a non-pedestrian script). What do you think?

Fincher has stomach for 'Torso'


By Borys Kit
David Fincher is carving out room in his schedule for "Torso," a thriller based on a graphic novel written by Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andrey-ko, which he will direct for Paramount Pictures. Ehren Kruger is writing the adaptation, which will be produced by Pandemonium's Bill Mechanic, Angry Films' Don Murphy and comic artist Todd McFarlane.

"Torso" tells the true but relatively unknown story of Treasury Department agent Eliot Ness' time after his Al Capone days, when he moved to Cleveland to be the city's public safety officer. Torsos began appearing in the river, and Ness began receiving notes taunting him to catch the killer. Ness, who had no experience in police work, put together a team of ex-officers to apprehend the serial murderer.

 
The graphic novel was written by Bendis and Andreyko and drawn by Bendis in the late 1990s. Bendis has since gone on to become one of the top writers in comics, with acclaimed runs on "Daredevil" and "Ultimate Spider-Man." Several of his creator-owned comics are in development around town, including "Jinx," which is set up at Universal Pictures with Charlize Theron attached.

"Torso" first was optioned by "Spawn" creator McFarlane, and Murphy came aboard later to give the project traction. Murphy went to Mechanic, who brought in Fincher.

Fincher directed "Fight Club" for Mechanic when Mechanic was head of 20th Century Fox.

Overseeing "Torso" for the studio are Alli Shearmur and Marc Evans. Todd McFarlane Prods.' Terry Fitzgerald also is producing.

Kruger's credits include "The Ring" and "The Ring Two," "The Skeleton Key" and "Arlington Road." He is repped by Paradigm.

The CAA-repped Fincher is well-acquainted with the serial killer underworld, having directed the cult hit "Seven." He is shooting "Zodiac," the Jake Gyllenhaal starrer about the 1970s San Francisco serial killer, which will be distributed domestically by Paramount.

"Torso" will be Fincher's third movie for Paramount, behind "Zodiac" and the in-development fantasy-drama "Benjamin Button."