Stalked: Anderson talks British films and McGrath makes A Violent Act
Douglas McGrath is writing and will direct the true crime story A Violent Act by Alec Wilkinson and Gillian Anderson has been talking about appearing in small budget British films such as Straightheads.
The Writer and Director of Infamous, Douglas McGrath, has revealed his next project, an adaptation of a novel by Alec Wilkinson entitled A Violent Act. It's a true crime story that follows a man who murdered his probation officer before heading on a crime spree of carjackings, robberies and murders. Eventually the man was caught by an Indian tracker.
According to his comments through Teletext, McGrath says that it's taken him a while to write the story because he wanted to do it just right. The book has been praised for the way it presents the crimes in a factual style, and they way it makes the reader feel, perhaps this is the reason that the adaptation has taken so long.
Straightheads is due out soon and I'm keen to see Gillian Anderson in the film, in the meantime she's been talking about appearing in small budget British films and how she both loves them and hates them.
"I find myself on yet another film where we constantly have to cut scenes and hurry up and shoot something before the light goes and knowing if it does go the scene gets thrown rather than picked up later because we don't have the budget. So there is part of me that says never again, but then again it's the kind of low-budget British film that I love watching, so I don't think I'll stop."
The comment comes from Timeout and shows that Anderson has developed much more than her previous X-Files persona. I still wonder why she's considering returning...oh yes, money.
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