Variety is reporting that Neil LaBute will direct his own adaptation of Charles Willeford's 1971 crime novel The Burnt Orange Heresy. The book was the author's first hardcover original.
Synopsis: Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing art critic Jacques Figueras will do anything -- blackmail, burglary, fencing, assassination -- to further his career. Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford expands his noir palette to include hues of sunny Florida and weird tints of Surrealism when Figueras takes a job for an art collector who doesn't care how his art is collected, even if it involves murder.
Three of Willeford's novels have previously been filmed: Cockfighter (for which Willeford also write the screenplay), Miami Blues, and The Woman Chaser.
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