In today’s first bit of book-to-movie news is word that Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights to John Leake’s non-fiction book Entering Hades.

The book told the story of Jack Unterweger, a journalist who led a double life strangling prostitutes in Vienna and Los Angeles. He used to conduct and cover his crimes in the early 1990s. Unterweger hung himself after receiving the life sentence.

Robert Schwentke is attached to direct the adaptation.