Also favored to join the project is Camilla Belle in the lead role of Eve. It’s a role a lot of young actresses wanted but as of now, it’s rumored to be hers. Such a shame that they could only pick one hot, young actress to walk dressed only in carefully placed leaves. Hollywood can be unfair sometimes. (Variety and Deadline)

Walter Matthau’s son Charles was most recently attached to direct the film after producers cycled through a laundry list of interested parties, though confirmation is still outstanding there. The movie is to be set in Leonard’s familiar stomping ground of Detroit and is said to feature a “twisty” plot. So you best arrive at the theater with your thinking cap.

Freaky Deaky was written in 1987, which surprised me to learn that the phrase had been around that long. Let’s hope, if William H. Macy is involved, that it isn’t a harbinger of the subject matter of the film. Kinky sex and Bill Macy are two great things that always ought be kept separate. (Playlist)

A word from Camilla: “I don’t think I’m necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.”