It’s been almost 5 years since actor-turned-director Todd Field’s second feature, Little Children, was released to almost universal acclaim, and now, after a couple of false starts (one of which was an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian), it looks like he finally has a project ready to go.
Indie Wire has revealed that a project by the name of Hubris has fallen into the director’s hands, it this looks likely to be his next feature.
Written by Bobby Moresco (a co-writer on Crash) it’s a real-life gangster saga inspired by a 2007 Playboy article called Boosting the Big Tuna, which was based on the FBI trial regarding the murders of the men who broke into and robbed the house of the notorious Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo (also known as Big Tuna) in the late 70’s. Within a month, five of the suspected thieves were found brutally murdered and a couple were reported to have been excessively tortured too.
Sounds like a departure from Field’s previous work, both which were much smaller in scale, contemporary family-led dramas (particularly his 2001 debut, In the Bedroom), but it should be interesting to see what he can do with material like this. The story has proved engaging enough that another, equally gifted filmmaker (Michael Mann) has begun developing his own script too.
