Though we were quite anxious to see John Hillcoat's adaptation of The Wettest County in the World get off the ground with Amy Adams, Ryan Gosling and Shia LaBeouf, unfortunately the project, which came to be known as The Promised Land, was shut down because funding just couldn't be found. Now, almost a year later, it seems the economy and the film industry has turned around enough to get the film back on track. In addition, 24 Frames reports LaBeouf has stuck around to stay aboard the project and now Tom Hardy will join him as a couple of bootleggers in a family of lawbreakers selling moonshine during the Great Depression.
It sounds like Hillcoat is still on board to direct the same script from Nick Cave which is based on Matt Bondurant's novel of the same name. The story is fictionalized but still based on the author's real life ancestors ...
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