The Playlist are reporting that Academy Award nominated actor Christian Bale is set to reunite with the director of The Machinist, Brad Anderson, for a new movie based on the novel Concrete Island by JG Ballard.
Apparently the role will need Bale to prepare his body, as is fast becoming his trademark (ie. losing drastic amounts of weight), for the part.
Anderson explained: “I’ve got another project that Scott Kosar, the writer of ‘The Machinist’ is writing,” Anderson revealed to WeGotThisCovered. “It’s based on J.G. Ballard’s novel called ‘Concrete Island.’ It’s an urban survival story that Christian Bale is attached to be in.”
The blog says that the story ‘follows the story of a wealthy architect who finds himself trapped in a man-made island between two West London motorways with only the contents of his car in his possession. What transpires is the degradation of his physical and mental condition which seemingly hints at more intense physical transformation from Bale.’
WikiPedia has more info on the plot:
A twisted adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, the story’s protagonist, Robert Maitland, a wealthy architect, finds himself stranded in a manmade ‘island’ (a section of fenced-off wasteland in the middle of a motorway intersection) between the Westway and M4 Motorway in West London, forced to survive on only what is in his crashed Jaguar and what he is able to find. As his condition degrades, it soon becomes difficult to determine whether Maitland is finding sanity or watching his mind fall apart as he finds companions on the island and eventually decides to remain there and forsake his former life.
More here.
