'Brass' in pocket
Phoenix options true-crime tome for Ruffalo
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Written by New York Times reporter David Kocieniewski, book chronicles an incident of police corruption in New York.
When an undercover cop infiltrated the Lucchesi crime family to solve the murder of a city firefighter, he discovered the tipster was the son of a high-ranking police official.
Ruffalo will play the undercover cop who cracked the case.
Phoenix execs Brad Fischer and David Thwaites will shepherd development of the book, which was sold by ICM. Phoenix will put a filmmaker on first to supervise a screenwriter.
"The Brass Wall" marks the third collaboration between Phoenix and Ruffalo. He wrapped the Steve Zaillian-directed "All the King's Men," which Sony releases Dec. 16, and just began shooting the David Fincher-directed "Zodiac," which Phoenix is producing.
Ruffalo, who opens this Friday opposite Reese Witherspoon in "Just Like Heaven," also stars in the upcoming Kenneth Lonergan-directed "Margaret" for Fox Searchlight/Camelot Pictures.
