Sam Mendes will direct The Voyeur’s Hotel, a new film based on the upcoming book of the same name. Steven Spielberg will produce the film over at Dreamworks.
The planned film is actually based on a New Yorker article by Gay Talese, and will soon his book stores in novel form. The film is Mendes’ first non-Bond movie for seven years.
Here’s the plot of the source material.
The Voyeur’s Hotel is a long and rather unsettling piece in which a Colorado man named Gerald Foos, a lifelong voyeur, opened a hotel primarily so he could watch guests having sex, through ceiling vents. He fancied himself as an observer of human behavior, but he sometimes did more than observe. Among other things, he was complicit in a murder he caused when he flushed the drugs of a dealer down the toilet and that dealer blamed his girlfriend and strangled her.
Surprisingly, this is all based on a true story.
Steven Spielberg will produce, along with Mendes for Dreamworks. More news as we get it.
