First photo of THE WETTEST COUNTY IN THE WORLD featuring Shia LaBeouf

The above pictures is our first look at John Hillcoat‘s adaptation of The Wettest County in the World. The Prohibition-era dramatic thriller is  currently shooting, and we have a couple set photos showing Shia LaBeouf in costume as one of the two leads. Tom Hardy plays the other lead. The images are not really that exciting.

The cast is simply amazing and includes, Gary OldmanMia WasikowskaTom HardyShia LaBeoufGuy PearceJason Clarke, and Jessica Chastain. The screenplay was adapted by Nick Cave who is also scoring the film, from Matt Bondurant‘s novel. 

 Here’s a description of the book upon which the film is based:

In 1928, a pair of thieves accost Bondurant’s real life great-uncle Forrest at his Franklin County, Va., restaurant. They’re after a large cache of bootlegging money and end up cutting Forrest’s throat. The story of his survival and his trek to a hospital 12 miles away has taken on mythical proportions by the time Sherwood Anderson arrives in Franklin County in 1934 to research a magazine piece on the area’s prolific moonshiners. Soon after Anderson’s arrival, two anonymous men appear at the same hospital, one with legs meticulously shattered from ankle to hip, the other one castrated, with the by-products of the deed deposited in a jar of moonshine. The arc of the story lies between the attack on Forrest and that on the two men.

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