Lowery Takes Over "Torso" Film Adaptation

"Ain't Them Bodies Saints" writer/director David Lowery has been hired to redraft and call the shots on the long-gestating adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko's graphic novel "Torso" says The Hollywood Reporter.

The book tells the true but largely unknown story of  what happened to U.S. Department of the Treasury agent Eliot Ness after he brought down Al Capone, when he moved to Cleveland to be the city's public safety officer. Torsos began appearing in the river, and Ness starts getting notes taunting him to catch the killer. Ness, who had no experience in police work, put together a team of ex-officers to apprehend the serial murderer.

The project nearly got going a few years ago with David Fincher attached to direct and  Matt Damon, Rachel McAdams and Casey Affleck hoped to star in the pic.

Lowery will start from scratch, rather than using the previous script drafts by Ehren Kruger.

This marks the third project in the past month that Lowery has become attached to, following the remake of the 1977 family film Pete's Dragon and the crime drama "The Old Man and the Gun" with Robert Redford attached to star.