"Strange Case Of Hyde" Gets New Writer

Screenwriter Albert Torres ("Henry Poole Is Here," "Akira") will re-write the script for the film adaptation of Cole Haddon's 2011 graphic novel "The Strange Case of Hyde" says The Wrap.

A pseudo-sequel to author Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the action is set five years later with Dr. Jekyll in prison and allegedly rehabilitated. Inspector Thomas Adye of Scotland Yard commissions Jekyll into hunting down a new terror, a monster that has been murdering prostitutes and appears to be the product of an improved version of the infamous Hyde serum. Adding to the complications, it seems Jekyll isn't completely cured of Hyde either.

Mark Gordon and David Ellison will produce the pic.

No production schedule was given.