Just in case you thought that Roman Polanski is going to stay in his house for the rest of his life, we're here to report that he's not, and that he's quite busy these days. Apparently, this well-known director now plans to adapt a true story of a Polish murderer who was caught after he made his crime into a novel. So, say “hi” to something fresh, titled True Crime!
True Crime will be Polanski's next project, inspired by a New Yorker article by David Grann about the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski by writer Krystian Bala, who wrote about the details his crime in a sado-sexual novel Amok.
Bala was tracked down by detective Jacek Wroblewski, using his book to catch the killer. Sounds like a perfect job for Polanski, don't you think?
Here's a little description: “A Polish writer has been accused of a murder – he wrote a crime story, having precisely described the facts of a real-life murder. According to investigators, travel writer, journalist and author Krystian Bala, aged 33, sent them his bestseller novel Amok that provided a detailed murder account in an attempt to draw attention to it.
It raised strong suspicion of the police as the writer's account turned out to be amazingly close to the murder of a man who, in December 2000, was found dead near a weir on the Oder river. The matter was aggravated by the fact that the killed man, Dariusz J, happened to be a friend of the writer's ex-wife.
The writer has denied the accusations. He explained his detailed knowledge of the murder by reading all the press reports. He added, he was framed to cover up for what he said was a ‘bungled' police investigation. Prior to the trial, Krystian Bala told the local press that Amok was his fictional work and even if the language and situations in the novel seemed too strong to be merely a fruit of his imagination, it was an intellectual work…”
At this moment we know that Jeremy Brock wrote the script, while Brett Ratner is in charge for producing the whole thing.
True Crime is set up at Focus Features and, as we said, Polanski is considering it as his next project.
Amok
