Can Jim Carrey serve as a replacement for Christoph Waltz? The world at large may have its doubts, but the filmmakers behind True Crimes think he can, as Waltz is no longer being talked about in connection with the murder mystery, but Carrey is now preparing to star alongside Agata Kulesza, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Zbigniew Zamachowski and Marton Czokas.
Jeremy Brock’s script is drawn from David Grann’s 2008 New Yorker article about the slaying of advertising company manager Dariusz Janiszewski, whose body washed up in Poland’s Oder River in December 2000. The crime baffled the authorities until detective Jacek Wroblewski tracked Janiszewski's missing cell phone to an eBay auction. The seller was Krystian Bala, a Polish intellectual whose sado-sexual novel Amok had been published after Janiszewski's death, and featured a plot that seemed eerily similar the real-life killing.
Speaking to Screen International, Brock explained that he travelled to Poland in 2008 and has worked on the script since then. “I spent the intervening time to find my inspiration for what has become an original screenplay. I haven’t worked so long and persistently on one project as I have done on this one. For me, working with a subject in the public domain means doing a great deal of research and gradually working it into my particular version.” And finding the right director helped. “Once I got to work with Alexandros Arana from the end of last year, the script really took off because he and I have a symbiosis. “It is a perfect marriage of my Anglo-Saxon mentality and his more European approach to filmmaking.”
Arana will start the cameras rolling in Krakow early next month. Carrey most recently worked on Ana Lily Amirpour’s dystopian love story The Bad Batch.
from Empire News
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