'True Detective' helmer will write and direct 'The Black Count'

To say Cary Fukunaga's star is on the rise is like saying Neil deGrasse Tyson knows a little about physics.

The dude burst on the scene with the wildly popular 'True Detective,' he's set to adapt a two part film version of Stephen King's IT, and his next film will be Beasts of No Nation starring Stacker Pentecost himself, Mr. Idris Elba.  But if you thought that was enough projects on Fukunaga's plate you'd be wrong.  The man is returning to the movie buffet line like a fat kid at Golden Corral. 

Fukunaga will adapt and direct the film The Black Count based on Tom Reiss' Pulitzer Prize winning biography.  Here's a synopsis:

General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas’s swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave—who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution—until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat.

I'll tell you one thing, you certainly can't say Fukunaga isn't making good choices.  This has the potential to be an excellent film.  I can already see Chiwetel Ejiofor in the role.

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