Variety is reporting that everyone’s favorite latently homosexual space invader Tom Cruise and his company United Artists have bought the rights to THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, a serial-killer thriller based on a novel of the same name by Douglas Preston (THE RELIC).
The screenplay will be written by Christopher McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) and might star Cruise, who at this point is only attached to produce. No director has been chosen yet.
The book is a reconstruction of eight grisly double homicides believed to have been committed single-handedly between 1968 and 1985 in and around the Italian Renaissance gem.
Intriguingly, the article says that the case of “The Monster of Florence” helped inspire HANNIBAL, the sequel to SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (which itself was partially inspired by a different monster: Ed Gein).
Sweet Xenu, what happened to this girl?!