Writer-Director Todd Field hasn’t made a film since “Little Children” (2006) and, before that, his incendiary debut “In the Bedroom” (2001). Whatever happened to him since 2006 is a mystery to me. Both films garnered eight Oscar nominations in total, he was heralded as a major new voice and then poof he was gone. What happened? I’m not sure. Something did. Either he was blackballed in the industry, for some reason, or, more realistically, he just had projects falling by the wayside due to the changing dynamics of the studio system ever since 2008’s “Iron Man” and “The Dark Knight” hit pay dirt and reshaped the way Hollywood thinks.
Regardless, Moviehole has the exclusive news that Field’s long-in-the-works film “The Creed of Violence” is finally in pre-production. This is an adaptation of Boston Teran’s novel. At some point in 2011 Leonardo DiCaprio was supposed to play the lead and then in 2012 it was Christian Bale who was in discussions for a part.
As per The Playlist:
“The novel pairs a strained father and son during the Mexican Revolution, who reluctantly partner to break up a criminal empire. The father Rawbone is a killer-for-hire, while his son John Lourdes is an agent in the nascent Bureau of Investigation, so we can see why that might create some tension at the family Thanksgiving dinner. Moviehole sees the part of Rawbone going to a big-name actor, but Fields imagines the role of John being perfect for a lesser-known actor in his early 20s.”