Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to director Abel Ferrara’s (Bad Lieutenant) Jekyll and Hyde, a re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (Where the Wild Things Are) and rap heavyweight 50 Cent star in the lead roles, with Fiddy, of course, playing the homicidal Mr. Hyde.

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The film’s synopsis reads:

Dr. Jekyll is a rich doctor of great generosity who lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Mr. Hyde is a sadistic murderer with a reputation that strikes fear in the hearts of people throughout New York. Peter Utterson, Dr. Jekyll’s lawyer and friend, investigates the mystery of who Mr. Hyde is and why he is the sole beneficiary of Jekyll’s will.

The devastating answer is that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same person, and the urgent problem is how to kill the beast without destroying the man

Earlier this year, Universal Pictures announced that it too would produce a film adaptation of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale with Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) playing double duty as the story’s titular characters.  Simply entitled Jekyll, the film is being directed by Nicolas Winding Refn from a script by Revolutionary Road scribe Justin Haythe.

Two Jekyll's? Whoa.

If this turns into a Jekyll standoff, someone is gonna end up shot to death in an SUV in Vegas. Just saying.