Ridley Scott directs THE KIND ONE!
Casey Affleck will star in the 1930's set film noir.
If it wasn't exciting enough that Casey Affleck was to lead a period film noir titled The Kind One, news has leaked from Variety that the legend that is Ridley Scott will direct and produce. It's Scott's 787th movie he has attached himself too in the last 18 months but unlike Martin Scorsese, Scott has a tendency to take no time off at all between films - making a ridiculous schedule of one movie a year so you just know he will get around to this one eventually.
Tom Epperson, the screenwriter of The Gift has adapted his novel for film. It's set in L.A. in the 1930s. Affleck will play an amnesiac who works for the sadistic killer and mobster The Kind One, where he ends up being seduced and falls in love with the thugs girlfriend, probably a hot femme fatale vixen. It's an old school film noir and is very exciting indeed. Scott is currently in post-production on Body of Lies, his adaptation of the David Ignatius C.I.A. thriller novel which stars Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio and Carice Van Houten. It's then expected he will move onto Nottingham but the possible Summer actor's strike may put that in doubt. No word yet on how The Kind One fits in.