I'm happy to see Neil Burger finally getting the attention he deserved. Of course it comes after arguably his least effective film, Limitless
, which also happens to be his highest grossing. Oh well. After toiling away on great underseen stuff like The Illusionist
and The Lucky Ones
, Burger scored his biggest win to date by earning the gig directing the big screen adaptation of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Now Burger is taking his newfound clout and pointing it at two of this country's most iconic bandits, Bonnie and Clyde.Deadline reports that Burger is attached to direct Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, an adaptation of Jeff Guinn's book which has a slightly different take on the Depression era criminals. This won't be gussied up, Hollywood version of the duo's crime spree. Guinn claims that Clyde's first murder was his cellmate, who sexually abused him. It also paints Bonnie as a prostitute before she hooked up with Clyde. Guinn also makes note of the fact that neither was quite the criminals the media painted them out to be.
Sheldon Turner(Up in the Air
) is adapting the novel, with one of the producers being Marissa McMahon, the wife of Shane McMahon, son of WWE head honcho Vince McMahon. Good deal. I loved Up in the Air, and Turner had a hand in the story for X-men:First Class
as well. This reminds me of that younger version of Bonnie and Clyde that was set to star Hilary Duff, Kevin Zegers, and Thora Birch. Wonder whatever happened to that? 
