If there was ever an actor to play dark and brooding it’s Christian Bale hands down. He’s just signed on to the PRISONERS project alongside Mark Wahlberg and (potentially) Bryan Singer.

This is a creepy one -

After his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive.

First, is Bale the father or the kidnapper? Which one is Wahlberg? It sounds creepy and could be really good. The spec script has yet to be financed but Bale is just one more clog in the machine for Endeavor who is trying to get this one to go.
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Back on March 6 it was announced Mark Wahlberg was attached to a new film called Prisoners from first-time writer Aaron Guzikowski. The story centers on a Boston man who turns vigilante after his daughter and her best friend are kidnapped.

At the time no director was attached and I said it sounded a lot like Wahlberg’s film Max Payne and a couple of commenters referenced Taken, the recent box-office success starring Liam Neeson. I didn’t necessarily think the film sounded all that interesting since we have had so many films of its ilk recently, but apparently the script is something Hollywood is hounding and has been compared to The Silence of the Lambs and Seven and over the weekend Entertainment Weekly dropped word that Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) may be eying the film as his next feature. (Read full story …)

One of the hottest scripts in Hollywood right now is a dark thriller from a previously unknown writer who signed with a major talent agency only two weeks ago. The screenplay already has drawn the commitment of Mark Wahlberg and the interest of nearly every major studio in town.

Aaron Guzikowski, a Brooklyn native who flew out to Los Angeles just a few weeks ago and signed with Endeavor, is behind “Prisoners,” a project said to have echoes of “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Seven.”

The story concerns a Boston family man whose 6-year-old daughter and her best friend are kidnapped. He takes matters into his own hands by kidnapping the man he suspects responsible. (Read full story …)