Josh Brolin to Star in Sean Penn's CRAZY FOR THE STORM
Josh Brolin is currently in talks to join the Sean Penn-directed film Crazy for the Storm, which is set up at Warner Bros.
The film will be an adaptation Norman Ollestad's memoir, and the story revolves around Ollestad's relationship with his father and how the skills his father instilled in him helped him survive after a plane crash stranded him on a mountaintop when he was only 11-years old. His dad was a former FBI agent, so I imagine they had some pretty intense camping trips. Obviously the kid survived if he wrote a memoir, but it's the jouney of survival that make this story interesting and exciting.
If Brolin ends up taking the role he will play Ollestad's dad. Brolin recently completed filming Labor Day for Paramount and Warner Bros' Gangster Squad. His next film will be Spike Lee's Oldboy, which he's shooting this fall.
Here's the description of the book, which will make for a great movie!
Dad Said
Ollestad, we can do it all. . . .
Why do you make me do this?
Because it's beautiful when it all comes together.
I don't think it's ever beautiful.
One day.
Never.
We'll see, my father said. Vamanos.
From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the intense, charismatic father he both idolized and resented. While his friends were riding bikes, playing ball, and going to birthday parties, young Norman was whisked away in pursuit of wild and demanding adventures. Yet it were these exhilarating tests of skill that prepared "Boy Wonder," as his father called him, to become a fearless champion--and ultimately saved his life.
Flying to a ski championship ceremony in February 1979, the chartered Cessna carrying Norman, his father, his father's girlfriend, and the pilot crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains and was suspended at 8,200 feet, engulfed in a blizzard. "Dad and I were a team, and he was Superman," Ollestad writes. But now Norman's father was dead, and the devastated eleven-year-old had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone.
Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and also taught him to overcome the indomitable. As it illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his son, Ollestad's powerful and unforgettable true story offers remarkable insight for us all.