Brad Anderson has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of graphic novel “The Living and the Dead” for Solipsist Films. Anderson’s previous directing credits include “The Machinist” and TV’s “Fringe”.
Here’s the synopsis from the back of the graphic novel:
You are a simple, country doctor in a small village. You have a beautiful wife and a wonderful son – the perfect life. Only they don’t know that in your past, you did a very bad thing! People died because of it, and you were forced to flee and live incognito. Now, in an opportunity to redeem yourself, you unwittingly unleash a brutal and perverse murderer, a deviant sociopath hell bent on using innocent people in a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood – a veritable nineteenth-century snuff theater. You alone can end his reign of sick terror – but at the risk of revealing your secret past and losing everything you love. Only you don’t know what’s worse – what you’ve created – or what you have to do to stop him!
You can buy the graphic novel from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk