It looks like one of my all-time favourites is heading back to Tinseltown.  Paul Verhoeven is making his way back to Hollywood as he’s signed on to develop and direct The Surrogate for 20th Century Fox.

Not to be confused with Bruce Willis’ upcoming sci-fi actioner, The Surrogate tells the story of a couple desperate to have a child who find themselves in an unbearable position when they find out the surrogate they hired to carry their baby is insane.

I’ve always been a big fan of Verhoeven and was more than a little disappointed when he left Hollywood a few years back, however if he never left I doubt he would of made the awesome Zwartboek (Black Book).

Verhoeven has a number of projects in the pipeline including Clandestine (a prequel to LA Confidential), The Paperboy (a murder/mystery about a journalist in 1960′s Florida), and The Thomas Crown Affair 2 (the sequel to the 1999 film starring Pierce Brosnan).

Now if only he could lure Joe Eszterhas out of retirement and the two collaborate on something like back in the old days, I think I could die a happy man.