Soho snuff movie in the works

Producer Jeremy Thomas hopes to adapt novel 'The Director's Cut' for the big screen.

Aug 10 2005

Jeremy Thomas has announced plans to bring Nicholas Royle's London-set novel 'The Director's Cut' to the big screen.

The legendary British producer, whose credits include 'Sexy Beast', 'Young Adam', and the forthcoming Terry Gilliam flick 'Tideland', hopes to direct the film, following his critically acclaimed debut 'All the Little Animals' in 1998.

'The Director's Cut' is set in the 1980s and revolves around the discovery of a dead body on the site of a former cinema in Soho.

The find brings four former friends back into contact with each other, and draws them into a web of murder, deceit and the murky world of snuff movies.

Thomas made the announcement at the Locarno Film Festival, where he was given the prestigious Raimondo Rezzonico lifetime achievement award.

He also announced plans to work on a new feature with Bernardo Bertolluci, with whom he has previously collaborated on 'The Last Emperor', 'Stealing Beauty' and 'The Dreamers' amongst others.

And while exact details on the project were scarce, Thomas did reveal that it will be 'fairly ambitious'.