British director Paul Greengrass is in talks to direct the film version of the graphic novel ‘Torso’ for Paramount Pictures. The planned film is titled Ness and focuses on Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko’s original work which follows the downfall of infamous gangster Al Capone.
Here’s a more detailed outline of the plot from the source material.
Cleveland: 1935. Eliot Ness, fresh from his legendary Chicago triumph over Al Capone and associates, set his sights on Cleveland and went on a crusade that matched, and sometimes even surpassed, his past accomplishments. Dismembered body parts have started washing up in a concentrated area of Lake Erie Sound. Their headless torsos have left no clues to their identity or the reason for death. Elliot Ness and his colorful gang of “The Unknowns” chased this killer through the underbelly of Cleveland for years. As far as the public was concerned he was never captured. But what really happened is even more shocking.
L.A. Confidential‘s Brian Helgeland wrote the most recent draft of the screenplay for the studio. Greengrass, John Davis, Greg Goodman, David Engel and John Fox are producing., so reports Deadline.
