I read at First Showing that Christian Bale is set to star with Mark Wahlberg in Prisoners. Now the Hollywood 
Reporter is saying the same thing, but more of a speculation, with the fact that Bryan Singer is 
interested in directing the film, though, it’s not official yet.
A Bale and Wahlberg movie would drive the financing and fast track production easily; especially if Singer comes aboard, too.
The script is pretty awesome as well. Small-town carpenter’s 6-year-old daughter and her friend are kidnapped; he comes head-to-head with a young, arrogant detective in charge of the investigation. The father is a Bible-reading, deer-hunting survivalist. The cop drive, basically, is to get to the city. Feeling failed by the law, the father captures the man he believes responsible and begins to torture him in a desperate attempt to find out what he did with the girls, whom he’s convinced are still alive.
The story, casting and direction speculation means a great opportunity for all three to have sure fire hit.
