Jessica Alba and Casey Affleck team up for ‘The Killer Inside Me'

Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba teaming up with Michael Winterbottom for "The Killer Inside Me," a thriller based on Jim Thompson's classic noir novel. Affleck will play Lou Ford, a West Texas sheriff who seems to be an ordinary guy, if somewhat boring, dumb, and lazy. However, he's slowly revealed to be a disturbed man, paranoid and sociopath, with a penchant for murder. If you've seen Affleck's Oscar-nominated turn in "The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford," you'll know how scary and unsettling he can be. Alba plays a prostitute, thus ensuring most red-blooded males buy a ticket.

This is one of those rare films that seems to have everything going for it. The novel was made into a 1976 film starring Stacy Keach. Oklahoma-based Indion Entertainment Group is financing, as is Barbarian Films and Oceania Media Finance. Wild Bunch is handling worldwide sales. Starting date is planned to be mid-January. Alba most recently appeared in "The Love Guru" and Affleck most recently starred in "Gone Baby Gone".

Check out the pictures of Jessica Alba at the premier of Filth and Wisdom which was the directorial debut of Madonna in New York.

(Sources: moviesblog.mtv.com, hollywoodreporter.com)