John Hillcoat ‘The Wettest County In The World’

I recently interviewed John Hillcoat myself for my favourite film of the year – The Road, I’m going to get my interview with Hillcoat online the first week of December. Hillcoat was recently interviewed by comingsoon.net where he gave a few details about his next project the film adaptation of The Wettest County In The World. He confirmed they start shooting in Febuary and talks a little about genres check it out it’s a good interview!

The cast for this looks good Shia LaBeouf(I’m not the biggest fan), Ryan Gosling, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Dano and Michael Shannon, the script is by Nick Cave who wrote Hillcoat’s brilliant film ‘The Proposition’. Below is a brief synopsis of the book. I love myself a good crime story!

This family saga follows the Bondurants, bootlegging brothers runnin’ stills, runnin’ loads, and runnin’ from the law in Depression-era Virginia. The book is mainly narrated through the experience of the youngest Bondurant, Jack (in truth, a grandfather of the author), and his family’s moonshine enterprise supplies the action in a plot that evokes the culture of distilling and distributing white lightning. To optimistic Jack, bootlegging is both a bond to his older brothers, Forrest and Howard, and a means to make cash to impress a girl. Forrest, by contrast, is taciturn and suspicious: the world is violent, and he meets it on that ground. Tender of the stills and imbiber from same, burly Howard is always ready to take on the Bondurants’ enemies, corrupt law officers. Wending through this conflict in flash-forward mode is novelist Sherwood Anderson, who plumbs the Bondurant story a few years after the brothers’ climactic confrontation with the county sheriff. Descriptively gritty and emotionally resonant, novelist Bondurant dramatically projects the poverty and danger at the heart of the old-time bootlegging life.