‘Stranger Than Fiction’ Writer Zach Helm To Adapt Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Deep Water’
By Angie Han/Jan. 12, 2012 5:00 am EST
The first is Errol Morris’ Freezing People is Easy, an adaptation of Robert Nelson’s cryogenic preservation memoir We Froze the First Man, which cast Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Walken last week. Now he’s also been tapped to write Deep Water, a “dark, sexy comedy” based on the thriller by Patricia Highsmith.
First published in 1957, Deep Water centers around an unhappy couple who have an arrangement that allows the wife to engage in extramarial affairs as long as she doesn’t leave her family. Things take a turn for the disturbing, however, when her paramours begin to mysteriously vanish. Since we haven’t seen Helm tackle this kind of tone before, I can’t really guess how his take might turn out, but it sounds like he’s working with some fun source material, at least.
[Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
