Debuting at last year’s Sundance Film Festival was a peculiar, but intimate coming-of-age drama called Terri. While it did feature John C. Reilly in a supporting role, the credit goes to Jacob Wysocki, playing a gawky teenager in his break-out turn. Helmed by Azazel Jacobs, the director has now found his next project and has quite a cast secured, Deadline reports.
Another Sundance favorite, Sound of My Voice and Another Earth‘s Brit Marling, will lead his next project, The Grace That Keeps This World, along with James Franco and Glenn Close. Matthew Aldrich, who was behind a possible Matt Damon directorial project and an upcoming Liam Neeson, has written the script which follows a family during a hunting season. With a strong cast, but no specific details on their roles, hopefully we hear more updates soon.
In the meantime, check out the complete synopsis below via Amazon:
This accomplished, moving first novel (after Bailey’s collection Crow Man) is about fathers and sons, tough love and compassion, the bonds of community and the solace of belief. Gary and Susan Hazen are natives of Lost Lake, a hardscrabble town in the Adirondacks, high school sweethearts who have raised their two sons on the satisfaction of living off the land. At this suspenseful narrative’s outset, Susan recollects a fateful day, the start of deer hunting season, hinting that some tragedy has struck her loving but combustible family. Gary is a highly principled and respected woodsman and hunter, but his self-righteousness brings him into conflict with his sons. Both young men have secrets that will strain the family fabric, and together father and sons weave a tangle of intention and circumstance that will culminate in an act that will test their power to survive. Alternately narrated by the Hazen family and members of the community, the novel sustains an elegiac tone even as events rise to a dramatic denouement. This novel has the validity of deeply felt truths and characters who are bound and motivated by a love that arches the chasm of divergent ambitions and desires.
Are you looking forward to this project? Have you read the novel?