Tommy Lee Jones is set to star alongside Jamie Foxx in Amazon’s upcoming film project The Burial. Jones will be replacing Harrison Ford, who was originally cast in the film before he had to drop out.
The project is based on Jonathan Harr’s 1999 article in the New Yorker about “the contractual dispute case brought against funeral home executive Ray Loewen by Mississippi businessman Jeremiah O’Keefe, who hired the flamboyant attorney Willie Gary. The jury awarded O’Keefe a total of $500 million, an amount which would bankrupt Loewen’s company.”
The Burial will be directed by Maggie Betts (Novitiate) from a script written by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife). Amazon Studios, Bobby Shriver Inc. and Double Nickel Entertainment are producing with Foxx.
If you’re interested in learning more about the story, you can read the New Yorker article that the film is based on here.
Source: Deadline
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