A new project (co-)created by studio Madhouse was revealed this week, and this time it's an anime adaptation of the cult suspense movies Siberian Express - a title which flashed me back to the classic (and completely unrelated) strategy game Transarctica... eh, the good ol' days. Anyway, ANN writes that "the anime project is planned as an anthology work with several directors", and that Madhouse will produce at least one of the parts.

Originally written, directed and produced by Haruo Mizuno, the Siberian Express movies began in 1996 as a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's movies, and new ones are still being planned for 2009. To get a feel for what to expect, here's IMDB's synopsis for the first Siberian Express movie:

"On the last leg of of a train ride from Moscow to Manchuria during the early years of World War Two, one of the passengers suddenly disappears. All of the other passengers, including military personnel and civilians from both the Axis powers and Allied nations, have reasons to be suspected. As the remaining passengers investigate, more murders are committed, until at last the political and personal motives of the killer (killers?) are unravelled."