There’s a bit of a Se7en reunion going on as director David Fincher is re-teaming with writer Andrew Kevin Walker on a new film, where they plan to reincarnate The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud, based on Max Ehrlich’s novel, which was previously made into a film in 1975.
The book is about a professor who starts to have strange dreams and nightmares, eventually coming to believe that these are images from a past life. He decides to try and prove that he really is having visions of someone who died just before he was born, which then turns into the hunt for the person who he believes killed him in a previous life.
The 1975 version was directed by J. Lee Thompson and starred Michael Sarrazin and Margot Kidder. The film caused some controversy due to a subplot involving incest. To be honest though, with Fincher and Walker aboard, you have to wonder whether incest will end up being the nicest thing in their new version, following what they did with Se7en.
THR reports that the creative team plan to go back to the book and create a contemporary version of the story.
It seems Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones has already reignited interest in tales of people looking for justice from beyond the grave, although anything that Fincher and Walker want to team up on is fine by us.