'Bonnie and Clyde' to be remade by 'Limitless' director

Limitless director Neil Burger will make a new movie based on the Bonnie and Clyde story.

Burger's project, to be written by Up in the Air's Sheldon Turner, will reportedly be a less romanticised interpretation of the Depression Era outlaws than the 1967 film that starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.

The first person Clyde Barrow murdered was a cellmate who sexually abused him, while Bonnie Parker was allegedly a prostitute before embarking on a crime spree with Barrow. Both were gunned down in 1934 after an ambush in Louisiana.

Jeff Guinn's book Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde will serve as the basis for the film, reports Deadline.

Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers are attached to play the notorious criminals in Tonya S. Holly's independent film The Story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Oliver Stone's 1992 drama Natural Born Killers, starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, was also inspired by the Bonnie and Clyde story and Arthur Penn's '60s classic.

Burger is currently attached to make a big screen version of video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

Watch the trailer for the original Bonnie and Clyde below: