MUMBAI: The Django Unchained star will be seen next in the thriller True Crimes, based on the real-life events surrounding a cold case, asserts The Hollywood Reporter.
 
The movie is going to be based on David Grann’s New Yorker feature, wherein the story involves the real-life case of Krystian Bala, a Polish writer who was convicted of murder in 2007. The murder for which he was convicted had been a cold case, baffling the Polish police for years, and had been called a perfect crime. Bala, never a suspect in the case, attracted attention when he published a novel that detailed a murder very much like the one that was frustrating the police.
 
Waltz will play Jacek Wroblewski, the police officer who reopens the cold case and becomes knotted in the dark underworld of Poland‘s sex rings, prostitution and drugs. The role will offer Waltz (known for playing memorable villains like a brutal Nazi in Inglourious Basterds) the chance to play a good guy again, like his Django bounty hunter.
 
The two-time Oscar winner recently signed on to play a Cold War consigliore posing as a typical American suburbanite in Stephen Gaghan‘s The Candy Store.
 
The project originally was set up at Focus Features, but the specialty label put it into turnaround last year. With Waltz newly attached, producers Brett Ratner, John Cheng and David Gerson who are also producing the upcoming Fan Bingbing-Jackie Chan vehicle Skiptrace are hunting for a new distribution partner.
 
Roman Polanski has been mentioned as a possibility to wheel as the director of the movie. The next step is locking in a director for the gritty European thriller, which is tonally similar to such films as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
 
Ratner and Cheng are producing through their Rat Entertainment banner. Gerson is producing via his InterTitle Films. Waltz is repped by ICM.