Ed Harris and Vanessa Hudgens Among Cast Members to Join Lily Rabe-Directed Film Adaptation of Novel DOWNTOWN OWL — GeekTyrant

The film adaptation of the novel Downtown Owl has found its cast, with Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, Jack Dylan Grazer, and August Blanco Rosenstein, as well as Lily Rabe, who is set to star and co-direct the film alongside long-time collaborator Hamish Linklater. The story is based on the novel by Chuck Klosterman, and Linklater is adapting the screenplay.

“The story is set somewhere in rural North Dakota in 1983 and is the fictional town called Owl where you won’t find cable or pop culture, but you will find a downtown with a first-rate Chevrolet dealership, three bars and a new high school English teacher whose presence upends the lives of locals just in time for a white-out blizzard for the ages.”

This sounds like an interesting story, and the book has great reviews, so I will add it to my reading list while we wait for this movie to be made.

via: Deadline