Despite the fact they were rather unpleasant, murderous nutters, Bonnie & Clyde still hold an oddly romantic place in the American psyche. Now there are plans for a new movie based on their exploits, with Variety reporting that Limitless director Neil Burger is attached to helm a movie adapted from Jeff Guinn’s non-fiction book, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Up In The Air’s Sheldon Turner in onboard to write the script about lovers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who left numerous bodies in their wake as they robbed banks across the Depression-era American South, before going down in a hail of bullets. Guinn’s book is said to deromanticise the story of Bonnie & Clyde, although the film version is likely to romanticise them right back up, because otherwise you’re just left with a movie about two rather unpleasant people going on a murderous rampage, while not even being particularly good crooks.
Burger also recently signed up to helm the film version of the videogame, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, but it isn’t clear whether that is likely to come before the Bonnie & Clyde pic or not.