Hello There, Brad Anderson

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Brad Anderson is a director, you might recall. One I enjoy, even! He directed Session 9 and The Machinist and Transsiberian most recently; also as of late there were some episodes of the TV show Fringe that I also quite enjoy that were crafted by his hand. And way back in the day he directed the films Next Stop Wonderland and Happy Accidents, both of which I've heard good things of and had copies of for months and months but not gotten around to watching yet. Somebody nag at me to do that.

Anyway, I recently posted that he is doing a horror-ish-y flick called Vanishing on 7th Street that will star Hayden Christensen (no shit - I originally typed his name as "Hanakin"! That's crazy!) and Thandie Newton (Die, Thandie! Die!) and John Leguizamo and is about a horrible darkness descending upon a city swallowing all, or something. Since he's directing it and I find him to be a rather fine director this sounded agreeable to me, even if the cast mostly leaves me cold (or makes me livid - I said die, Thandie!).

Well now, before that movie's even begun shooting (it starts later this month), he's lining up another project. Via STYD:

"Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell's graphic novel "The Living and the Dead" will get new life on the big screen. According to Mania, director Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) will tackle an adaptation for Solipsist Films.

Here's a synopsis that was released in 2005 when Speakeasy first published the story: You are a simple, country doctor in a small village. You have a beautiful wife and a wonderful son — the perfect life. Only they don't know that in your past, you did a very bad thing! People died because of it, and you were forced to flee and live incognito. Now, in an opportunity to redeem yourself, you unwittingly unleash a brutal and perverse murderer, a deviant sociopath hell bent on using innocent people in a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood—a veritable nineteenth-century snuff theater. You alone can end his reign of sick terror — but at the risk of revealing your secret past and losing everything you love. Only you don't know what's worse — what you've created — or what you have to do to stop him!"

Ooh "a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood"! That sounds promising! Anyway,, it sounds like a snuffier version of Cronenberg's A History of Violence, right? I could be down for that. AHoV didn't have nearly enough shots of oozing brains in it.
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