The Fighter actor Christian Bale, 37, is planning to reteam with his friend, The Machinist director Brad Anderson, for a film adaptation of the 1974 novel Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard, reports Coming Soon.
The director is working on a few other projects while on the promotional trail for his new thriller Vanishing on 7th Street, starring Hayden Christensen and Thandie Newton, due out in the U.S. later this month.
Anderson confirmed that Bale wants the lead role, and that they just need to find a window in the actor’s busy schedule. Concrete Island tells the story of wealthy architect Robert Maitland who has a car accident on an isolated stretch of highway still under construction.
"The best way to describe it is it’s like an urban Robinson Crusoe story," said Anderson. "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."
In May, Christian Bale will once again don Batman’s superhero cape for The Dark Knight Rises, scheduled for theatrical release July 20, 2012. Next month at the Academy Awards, the actor is up for a best supporting actor Oscar for the role of Dicky Eklund opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter.