Alex Holmes is set to rewrite and direct The Interpretation of Murder for Warner Bros., going by online reports. Holmes is best known for having done House of Saddam.

The film is an adaptation of Jed Rubenfield’s 2007 novel, which follows a Sigmund Freud protégé who discovers a trail of sadistic murders in turn-of-the-century New York.

The first draft of the screenplay was written by Chris Kyle.