Nick Cave novel ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’ set for film treatment

I wrote last week that I thought Nick Cave was busy, I suggested that we were going to run our really great Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds retrospective feature on the website but we became too busy, this week Nick Cave got even busier and so did we. Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, the Grinderman himself is having his 2009 novel 'The Death of Bunny Munro' turned into a film. Awesome. That is to say, I've never read it, but I'm sure it's awesome.

The story (or so I'm told) is about the final days of a sex-obsessed traveling salesman after the suicide of his wife. Wait. It started awesome, then got sad, CMU say it's funny but disturbing.

Empire Magazine caught up with Cave at that honourary degree at Dundee University thing last month and Cave told them that Ray Winstone has been "dying" to play Benny Munro and that Mr Sexy Beast had been introduced to the project before the book was actually written. Apparently Cave originally wrote the story as a screen play but after failing to catch a bite in the film industry he made it a book. "[Winstone] really loved the script when we first handed it to him. He was really excited about it, and really distressed when it kinda tanked and never got made" he explained.

He also told Empire that the film is set to be directed by John Hillcoat who directed his last film 'The Proposition' which Winstone was in funnily enough. They're the new Scorsese and Di Caprio.