David Fincher to make crime thriller 'Panic Attack'?

David Fincher could be planning to make a New York-set crime thriller.

The Social Network director has bought the rights to David Starr's novel Panic Attack which centres on a psychiatrist and family man's murder of an intruder in his city home, Vulture reports.

Panic Attack depicts the ensuing media circus and the family's attempts to deal with the dead intruder's stalking best friend Johnny Long.

Ocean's Eleven and Tower Heist screenwriter Ted Griffin will be adapting the book.

Fincher is currently linked to several other projects including Cleopatra.

Angelina Jolie, who will take on the role of Cleopatra, recently revealed that the director is a definite contender for helming the new version of the historical drama.

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