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UPDATE: Relativity Media has confirmed the deal, and they’ve retitled the script Out of the Furnace.
EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media is making a deal with Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper to rewrite and direct The Low Dweller, one of the hottest spec scripts of 2008 that saw Relativity Media beat out four studios to pay $650,000 against $1.1 million to scribe Brad Ingelsby, who was at the time living with his parents in Pennsylvania and working for his dad’s insurance business. That deal came with an attachment from Leonardo DiCaprio to star and Ridley Scott to direct. DiCaprio is no longer starring but still producing with his Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Scott with Tony Scott and Michael Costigan through Scott Free, and Energy Entertainment’s Brooklyn Weaver.
The Low Dweller is a dark drama set in 1986 Indiana. The protagonist is Slim, a man released after serving years in prison for murder who wants only to follow through on his promise to marry his long-suffering girlfriend. But when he discovers his brother has been murdered after getting involved in a gambling racket, his goals change and he avenges the murder.
The script has a No Country for Old Men spare vibe to it, and it will be interesting to see how Cooper handles the material.
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Good for specs I guess. Though I guess this doesn’t really fit into the high concept model. But yeah, either way, good for specs.
Thank God Leo and Ridly are still producing. Otherwise this project would be in trouble. If you can’t tell I’m being sarcastic. Honestly, if they aren’t going to be directly involved in making the movie they shouldn’t be piggish and take producing fees. Also, the script is well written, if you are reading it as a novel. But in terms of story and plot twists this really is very spare. Good luck Scott, you are gonna need it on this one.
So let me get this straight. You ‘read’ the script, right? Reads as a novel? When’s the last time you picked up a novel? And no, graphic novels don’t count. Seriously. The writer’s living with his folks and pens a script, gets a HUGE break, the script makes the black list, big names take a chance on it and some troll like you has to take a dump on the project. Way to go Jackass. Pat your self on the back.
Just calling it like I see it. If you read the other comments on this board more people seem to agree with me than you. And what I meant by the novel comment is that it is well written but alot of the exposition won’t translate to the actual film. Like when Slim squares off with the bad guy there is some line in the exposition that says, “and the eyes of hell square off against the BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.” It reads cool but when it comes time to shoot that scene it’s just two guys looking at each other. But don’t get your panties all in a bunch dude.
Good. A normal project. Nothing 3D nothing like Avatar.
Great!
This script was so mediocre. Was hoping for more from Cooper’s next movie but maybe he rewrote or fixed it.
read it too….well written but repetitive style dialog…and very bleak….not in a Coen Brothers way ‘bleak but fascinating’…..just bleak with little upside for an audience interest or appeal.
Sorry, folks, but hiring Scott Cooper to rewrite this based on um… ‘Crazy Heart’ is a bit like getting Sue Grafton to rewrite a Jim Thompson novel.
The script was written in a pretentious, McCarthy-lite literary style, and as written what would end up on screen is pure hicksploitation nonsense.
The only chance that script had at being an interesting movie was if someone really embraced it as a throwback, pulpy pic. Cooper is probably not that director, not sure that he matches up with the material. This will probably end up as one of those annoying pseudo-highbrow genre pic that doesn’t have the courage of its convictions.
Or maybe Cooper will do something awesome in the rewrite and I will totally eat those words.
If it was one of the hottest spec scripts of 2008 why are they rewriting it?
“Out of the Furnace”??? Lol. Agreed that it was a labored read. Nothing new.
Great script. Great writer. Great potential.
Very mediocre wanna be Cormac McCarthy revenge script. Even when Leo was attached and money on the table it was a pass. What I’ve seen from Cooper as a filmmaker, he’ll need to pull the Lucky Charms processing plant out of his ass to make this a remotely interesting screenplay. There is better material of the same genre out there to be developed. Didn’t see why everyone went crazy over this script in 2008 (even before the revenge film Taken was released).