SE7EN Team to Take on PETER PROUD

David Fincher.  Andrew Kevin Walker.  Michael De Luca.  Even outside of SE7en, these three have accomplished so much in the film world.  In 1995, when these three came together, they created one of the most engaging and original thrillers, arguably, in the history of the art.  Now, 14 years later, they are coming back together.  Heat Vision is reporting that the team is stepping up to adapting Max Ehrlich’s novel THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD.

The story centers on a college professor who begins having visions and dreams about someone else’s life.  With his girlfriend accompanying him, he seeks out the source of these visions and comes across a woman and her daughter who may hold the key.  Not having seen the original 1975 film, which starred Michael Sarrazin and Margot Kidder, or read the novel, I cannot say where the story goes from there.  However, it is being billed as a supernatural thriller, so it seems this becomes much more suspenseful than the Past Lives Pavilion scenes in DEFENDING YOUR LIFE.

Of course, with the trio that hit us with SE7EN on tap to bring this one to life, expect nothing short of brilliance.  Just hearing Fincher is on board to direct something gets the expectation levels amped.  It is also great to hear that Andrew Kevin Walker is returning to the screenplay writing world.  I’m sure he never left completely, but his last feature film screenplay was for SLEEPY HOLLOW (he wrote THE WOLFMAN remake, but it hasn’t hit theaters yet).

THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD is set up at Columbia.  Alison Rosenzweig will serve as producer alongside De Luca.