Darren Aronofsky Looking to Direct THE GOOD NURSE
Darren Aronofsky has established himself as a director who is great at making huge big budget movies like Noah and smaller art house type film like Black Swan. His last movie was Noah, which was his big dream project, and I liked it! I’ve been curious to see what he would do next. After all, what does a director do after they make their dream project?
He’s been developing a couple of things, such as an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam for HBO. The Tracking Board is saying that he's looking to direct a film adaptation of The Good Nurse, which based on the novel by Charles Graeber. It’s based on the true story of a nurse who was also an insane serial killer who was implicated in the deaths of hundreds of people.
The film is set up at Lionsgate, and it’s being written by Krysty Wilson-Cairns. The book is an investigative journalist’s look at the nurse, whose name is Charlie Cullen, and it follows the detectives who put together the case against him. This definitely sounds like a story that Aronofsky could turn into an incredible film.
Here's the description of the book:
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed ‘The Angel of Death’ by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favourite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen’s murderous career in the world’s most trusted profession spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Investigative journalist Charles Graeber’s portrait of Cullen depicts a surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill, and whose shy demeanor masked a twisted interior life hidden even to his family and friends. Were it not for the hardboiled, unrelenting work of two former Newark homicide detectives racing to put together the pieces of Cullen’s professional past, and a fellow nurse willing to put everything at risk, including her job and the safety of her children, there’s no telling how many more lives could have been lost. In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Good Nurse does more than chronicle Cullen’s deadly career and the breathless efforts to stop him; it paints an incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers an urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship and betrayal.