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Brad Anderson Reteaming with Christian Bale for 'Concrete Island'

by Alex Billington
February 8, 2011
Source: STYD, WGTC

Some news for fans of The Machinist. Director Brad Anderson is out talking with press this week for the upcoming theatrical release of his creepy thriller Vanishing on 7th Street (watch our review from Toronto). One other project he talked to press about is called Concrete Island, an adaptation based on J.G. Ballard's novel, that apparently The Machinist and The Crazies writer Scott Kosar is adapting. Not only is he working on that, teaming him up with Kosar again, but apparently none other than actor Christian Bale is attached as well, as confirmed by both ShockTillYouDrop and a site called We Got This Covered. More quotes below!

Anderson provided separate quotes to each website, but he pretty much says the same thing to both anyway. Anderson: "I've got another project that Scott Kosar, the writer of The Machinist is writing. It's based on J.G. Ballard's novel called Concrete Island. It's an urban survival story that Christian Bale is attached to be in." So there you go. Anderson also provides somewhat of a different perspective on the project to STYD:

"The best way to describe it is it's like an urban Robinson Crusoe story - a guy crashes a car into a highway interchange and is marooned in this weedy lot, injured, and can't escape and he's basically trying to survive in the middle of the big urban Metropolis. It's sort of a crazy, cool Ballard-esque type story, but Christian's on board to do that when we can fit it into his schedule, of course."

That probably means not for a while, considering he's about to win an Oscar and has The Dark Knight Rises coming up, as well as numerous other projects, like potentially Kathryn Bigelow's Triple Frontier. Ballard's book is apparently quite complex, which will make it a challenge to adapt. "Ballard's novels are complex, obsessive, frequently poetic, and always disquieting chronicles of nature rebelling against humans, of the survival of barbarism in a world of mechanical efficiency, of ethropy, anomie, breakdown, ruin." It would be great to see these three reunite for yet another edgy, complex psychological thriller, and if it ends up being Concrete Island, I'm all for it. We'll let you know if they ever get this moved into production. Sound good?

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