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Following the news that Josh Hutcherson has landed the starring role in director James Franco’s “The Long Home”, Variety brings word that Timothy Hutton has also joined the cast.
Set in 1940s rural Tennessee, the book follows a young man (Hutcherson) who goes to work building a honkytonk for a charismatic and diabolical bootlegger, unaware that the man had murdered his father 10 years earlier. He runs into more trouble when he falls for the young woman the bootlegger is grooming to be a prostitute.
Franco is producing with Vince Jolivette and Jay Davis of Rabbit Bandini. Exec producers are Robert Halmi Jr. and Jim Reeve.
Variety reported the news.
