Simon Baker (TV "The Mentalist") is playing an attorney on the trail of a murderer in The Killer Inside Me--Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the book by Jim Thompson says The Hollywood Reporter.He joins Casey Affleck, Bill Pullman, Ned Beatty, Jessica Alba as a prostitute, Kate Hudson as the sheriff's schoolteacher girlfriend and Elias Koteas in the noir thriller.
The story centers on a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral going from that of a boring small-town cop into a ruthless, sociopathic murderer
Baker plays a county attorney looking to expose the sheriff as the killer.
The story was adapted for the screen in 1976...
Robert D. Weinbach and John Curran have adapted the script.
Filming begins this week in New Mexico and Oklahoma.
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