DJ Caruso to WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES

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DJ Caruso is in talks to direct an adapation of Lawrence Block's A Walk Among The Tombstones for Cross Creek Pictures. Scott Frank is writing the script on the project that's been in development for 10 years. Caruso is also in talks to direct Preacher, the John August-scripted film for Sony Pictures and producer Neal Moritz.

The film is being produced by Double Feature's Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher along with Danny DeVito and Cross Creek president Brian Oliver. The project was initially set up at Universal with Harrison Ford interested in playing Matthew Scudder, "an alcoholic former cop who spends his retirement doing favors for friends, the kind that take him deep into the underbelly of New York City." In A Walk Among the Tombstones, "a heroin kingpin's wife is kidnapped and those kidnappers begin to send her back in pieces." The project set on the shelf for 14 years as edgy dramas went out of fashion.

Deadline reports that CAA Independent's Roeg Sutherland was integral in breathing new life into the project by bringing it to Cross CreekThere are over 20 books in the Scudder series, and the hope is to hatch a franchise. This is the second time audiences have seen Scudder on screen, the first was 8 Million Ways To DieThe film is said to have an R-ratin and be similar to Taken or No Country For Old Men.

Caruso most recently directed I Am Number Four, Eagle Eye and Disturbia. I only enjoyed Disturbia, but this sounds like it is promising. It will be cool to see Scudder back in action on the big screen. The question now is, who would play the lead? Share your thoughts below.

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