Midnight Meat Train Gets Its Butcher
I used to read like a locust eats. Instead of picking my way through different titles by different authors I would pick one author and just devour practically everything he or she wrote then move onto the next victim. One advantage of this approach is that I’m fairly well-rounded in what I’ve read, but unfortunately I made my way through so many of them so quickly that most stories barely made a dent. One that did was Clive Barker’s Midnight Meat Train, which has been hovering over a cinematic production for some time now. Rope of Silicon reveals some interesting casting choices.
Vinnie Jones is set to star opposite Bradley Cooper in Clive Barker’s The Midnight Meat Train based on Barker’s short story published in his popular “Books of Blood” series. Jones will portray Mahogany, a serial killer who rides the midnight subways, looking for victims to butcher before the train reaches the last stop. Leslie Bibb and Brooke Shields have also taken roles in the film scheduled to begin production next month in Los Angeles.
I really like Vinne Jones, and I think a palpable sense of physical menace is almost mandatory for the role of Mahogany, so I certainly hope he’s capable of contributing to the subtler terrors in the story. If, that is, any are retained.