Baby-faced star Casey Affleck and the delightful Jessica Alba are set to get down and dirty as a murderous cop and small-town prostitute in The Killer Inside Me. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, who has just finished doing the rounds with bereavement drama Genova, it will follow an otherwise boring sheriff's descent into murder.
Affleck will play Lou Ford, the seemingly dull deputy with a girl-next-door girlfriend. But, beneath his unremarkable normal life, Ford carries a deep, dark secret and harbours a bad girl lover (Alba) on the side. Struggling like Jekyll with his Hyde side, Lou finally gives in to the monster inside, unleashing his wrath on unsuspecting townsfolk.
Based on the noir novel by Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me was described by Stanley Kubrick as: "Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered." A big screen adaptation of the book was made in 1976, starring Stacy Keach (American History X), but it is likely this version will work straight from the text, rather end up as a movie remake. Filming looks set to start in mid-January.