The Risky Business Blog is reporting that Christian Bale (The Dark Knight, Terminator Salvation) is attached to Bryan Singer‘s Prisoners, a thriller also starring Mark Walhberg (Max Payne, The Happening). No word yet if Singer is officially set to direct, but he has been circling the project for awhile.
Plot: After his 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped, a small-town carpenter butts heads with a young, brash detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop, meanwhile, can’t wait to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive.
Bale is always good. I thought Singer’s latest, Valkyrie, was a huge disappointment, but he is still a great director. Wahlberg’s last 4 or 5 films have been horrible, but it looks like he is getting back on the right track with Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones coming out later this year. Count me excited for this film.
What do you think of Prisoners with Bale?