Nip/Tuck Creator Heads For Big Screen

Eat your heart out, Extreme Makeover! When it comes to TV shows about plastic surgery launching Hollywood careers, there is only one name that matters, and that is Nip/Tuck. Julian McMahon, who plays amoral anti-hero Christian Troy, has already leapt into the metal underpants of Dr Doom, and now the show's creator, Ryan Murphy, who has been hired by Paramount to write and direct a new thriller, Need. Based on Lawrence David's novel of the same name, the film follows a suicidal woman in therapy, who embarks on an affair. Fair enough, you might think. After all, a bit of romance (or whatever) might be just the thing to cheer her up a bit. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the man she's seeing turns out to be married. To her therapist. When the psychiatrist puts the pieces together, the stage is set for a rather dark tale of greed, lust and other deadly sins. The subject matter should at least be familiar to Murphy, given that Nip/Tuck also tends towards the darker side of life. He plans to write the script over the summer, with casting in the autumn and filming due to take place this winter. This won't be Murphy's first feature however. He already has two other projects in the works - Running with Scissors, a drama where a grown man looks back over his childhood with his bi-polar bother, starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Evan Rachel Wood, Annette Benning and Brian Cox; and Why Can't I Be Audrey Hepburn, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as a woman obsessed with Audrey Hepburn, whose life is thrown into chaos after she is abandoned at the altar. Running with Scissors is currently in post-production, due for a December release, but it now seems that Hepburn will not shoot until after this project. We