Remember The Titans writer Gregory Allen Howard has found himself a killer concept – literally. He’s snagged the story rights to the case of the BTK Killer, who cut a swathe through the Kansas town of Wichita between 1974 and 1991.
He was eventually caught – and revealed as a mild-mannered church leader - in 2005, but only after the concentrated efforts of a Kansas police detective and the counterterrorism expert who helped him thin down the suspect list.
It’s quite a tale, which Howard has turned into a screenplay called Factor X, named after the motive for murder that the BTK killer (the acronym was for his method – bind, torture, kill) mentioned when jeering at frustrated police via letters.
No surprise, then, that New Line snapped up the chance to make the movie, with Eric Bana and Terrence Howard (who obviously has decided that he doesn’t need to sleep when he can just make movies 24/7) attached to play the dedicated policeman and the terrorism expert.