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"Crash" co-scribe Bobby Moresco has adapted the script and is set to direct the indie crime thriller "The Harbor" says Variety.

Based on J.P. O'Donnell's "Deadly Codes", the story follows a discredited former Boston narcotics cop turned private investigator who takes on an intriguing murder case which ends up being a part of a government conspiracy. Filming kicks off this Fall.

Moresco has also turned in the script and is in negotiating to direct a modern-day adaptation of Koreyoshi Kurahara's 1960 noir "Intimidation" to Japanese studio Nikkatsu.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and though we haven't read it, we're going to assume that Jp O'Donnell's "Deadly Codes" isn't exactly a literary masterwork. But clearly, "Crash" writer Bobby Moresco has seen something movie-worthy in the material as he's setting it up as his next directorial project.

While primarily known as the screenwriter for Paul Haggis' divisive Oscar-winner, Moresco has also gotten behind the camera, most notably for gangster flick "10th & Wolf" as well as for episodes for the since-canceled series "The Black Donnellys" and "Crash" (both of which had Haggis working on them as well). He's also been busy as a screenwriter penning "Castro's Daughter," which will star Antonio Banderas, and is doing a rewrite on Todd Field's gangster tale "Hubris." All this to say that the man is no neophyte, but right now his focus seems to be on directing.

Bobby Moresco, an Oscar winner for co-writing Crash, has signed on to direct the independent crime thriller The Harbor.  According to Variety, Moresco adapted the screenplay from Jp O'Donnell's novel Deadly Codes, "a redemptive tale of a shamed and discredited former Boston narcotics cop turned private investigator who takes on an intriguing murder case."  The plot thickens when the Pi discovers the murder is part of a government conspiracy. Moresco also penned a modern-day adaptation of Intimidation, the 1960 Japanese noir about "the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion."  Moresco is in talks to direct Intimidation, but production on The Harbor is set to begin this fall, which keeps it first on Moresco's schedule.  Hit the jump for synopses for Deadly Codes and Intimidation. Here's the Deadly Codes synopsis: In the thriller, Deadly Codes, Daniel Cormac Gallagher,...