Directed by John Hillcoat (The Road), The Wettest County in the World is based on a Matt Bondurant novel about the crimes committed by and against a Prohibition era family of bootleggers. Nick Cave (who was a writer for The Proposition and a composer for The Road) wrote the screenplay, and it was independently financed by the producers of Jarhead and Girl, Interrupted, with filming hopefully starting this Spring.
Tom Hardy — who has been in big hits like Black Hawk Down, Inception, and has an unrevealed role in The Dark Knight Rises — is currently shooting the romantic comedy This Means War with Reese Witherspoon. Shia LaBeouf, however, will have to temporarily put his other project, College Republicans, on hold to be a part of this movie. Shia and Paul Dano had been billed to play Lee Atwater and Karl Rove in a story similar to The Social Network in its tale of two college conservatives coming into power.
There’s no update on whether or not Amy Adams is still attached to the film, though it seems like Ryan Gosling has been replaced by Tom Hardy.
[Via LA Times]
Directed by John Hillcoat (The Road), The Wettest County in the World is based on a Matt Bondurant novel about the crimes committed by and against a Prohibition era family of bootleggers. Nick Cave (who was a writer for The Proposition and a composer for The Road) wrote the screenplay, and it was independently financed by the producers of Jarhead and Girl, Interrupted, with filming hopefully starting this Spring.
Tom Hardy — who has been in big hits like Black Hawk Down, Inception, and has an unrevealed role in The Dark Knight Rises — is currently shooting the romantic comedy This Means War with Reese Witherspoon. Shia LaBeouf, however, will have to temporarily put his other project, College Republicans, on hold to be a part of this movie. Shia and Paul Dano had been billed to play Lee Atwater and Karl Rove in a story similar to The Social Network in its tale of two college conservatives coming into power.
There's no update on whether or not Amy Adams is still attached to the film, though it seems like Ryan Gosling has been replaced by Tom Hardy.
[Via LA Times]
