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Tom Cruise Hunts Down 'The Monster Florence'
Friday, September 5, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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Tom Cruise and United Artists have acquired rights to serial-killer thriller The Monster of Florence, with Cruise attached to produce and possibly to star, according to Douglas Preston, author of the bestseller that had previously inspired the Thomas Harris sequel "Hannibal." Read on for more details.

Preston and Italo journo Mario Spezi told Corriere della Sera they have inked with UA for a big-screen adaptation of their reconstruction of eight grisly double homicides believed to have been committed single-handedly between 1968 and 1985 in and around the Italian Renaissance gem.

"It's the biggest movie deal in my life," the leading Italo daily quoted Preston as saying in a front page story. Previous Preston tomes made into movies include thriller "The Relic."

"The film will have Florence and the Chianti as protagonists: two of the locations most beloved by Americans," said Spezi, a Florentine crime reporter and "Monster" contributor, to Corriere.

Reps for United Artists could not immediately be reached for comment.

Spezi said the script will be penned by Chris McQuarrie ("Valkyrie") and that Cruise will produce and decide whether he wants to star once he reads it.

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Read 12 User Comments

betz1369
3:36pm, September 5, 2008

tom cruise? fuck that action.


Protecious
4:07pm, September 5, 2008

i wish tom cruise still had the face and look he had when he was in "the outsiders" i wanna stab him with a sicle


coldblood
6:00pm, September 5, 2008

Tom Cruise and horror go together like fat girls and sharks. This is too good of a true crime story to have Cruise fuck it up with his weird shit.


horrorchick81
6:26am, September 6, 2008

used to like him as a actor before he went all wierd and crap with his scientology......idk bout this film


WENN
12:48pm, September 6, 2008

i actually think tom cruise would make a fab serial killer....he looks normal at first glance ,but take a deeper look into his eyes and you see somethings off....also that laugh of his has always been creepy,even when it was considered charming by most....


DBlock
5:18pm, September 6, 2008

Wow, Tom Cruise as a serial killer? Hmmm, really? This should be interesting A scientologist portraying a serial killer. Enough said.


BeRightBack
10:23pm, September 6, 2008

lol listen to all you people acting as if you know Tom Cruise. You're probably just as weird and fucked up as he is. BTW Tom Cruise makes good movies, get a clue.


deadfactory
11:07am, September 7, 2008

wow, BeRightBack really made a strong case for tom cruise by saying "BTW Tom Cruise makes good movies, get a clue" Im sold, with this, ill never doubt tom again. Tool.


WENN
6:46pm, September 7, 2008

@berightback tom,is that you..


DBlock
11:20pm, September 7, 2008

Deadfactory, right on. Never said nor implied I knew the man just saying he may not be suited for this genre thats all.


coldblood
6:07pm, September 9, 2008

Ok BeRightBack. You knew you'd be getting a lot of responses from your comment - so here's mine. Yes, Tom Cruise has made a lot of good movies. And he plays a bad guy very well - like in Interview With a Vampire. But this just is not his cup of tea. And yes we are weird and fucked up in our own way too. However, we are not in the movies, we are just the fans who pay for the tickets and dvd's and make guys like him rich. Instead of messing with us, try reading about the real Monster of Florence and you'll see that Tom is not right for that kind of movie. :) Especially now that he's nuttier than squirrel shit!


GreatGodPanDemic
7:26am, September 23, 2008

"Nuttier than squirrel shit" That's awesome. I just thought of another one, same thing, implying someone's crazy, 'more bananas than a monkey turd'


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