Douglas Preston, author of the bestseller The Monster of Florence, told Variety today that Tom Cruise and United Artists have acquired rights for the big screen adaptation of his serial-killer thriller of the same name. The script will be penned by Chris McQuarrie (Valkyrie) and produced by Tom Cruise who will then decide whether to star in the film as well once he reads the script.
The film will be 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… [and] will have Florence and the Chianti as protagonists: two of the locations most beloved by Americans.”
“It’s the biggest movie deal in my life,” Preston was quoted saying in a front page story of the Italo daily. His novel The Relic was also adapted into a movie in 1997 and his Monster of Florence case was the inspiration behind Thomas Harris’ sequel Hannibal.
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