Andrew Garfield and Jennifer Garner Cast in BACK ROADS
In the midst of filming Spider-ManAndrew Garfield has been landed the lead role in a new film called Back Roads. Jennifer Garner and Marcia Gay Herden were also cast in the film, which is an adaptation or Tawni O'Dell's best selling novel of the same name.
Adrian Lyne (Jacobs Ladder) was hired to direct the murder mystery from a screenplay he co-wrote with the books author.
Garfield will play a young man who is forced to care for his three younger sisters after their mother is sent to prison for killing her abusive husband. Garner will play one of the family's neighbors who becomes romantically involved with the Garfield, while Harden will play his court-appointed therapist.
According to Variety the studio is looking at several high-profile young actresses to take on the roles of Garfields two sisters in the film. The movie is scheduled to start shooting in June.
This film has got some great talent attached to it, and it sounds like it's going to be an intensely heavy film. I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
Here's the description of the story from the book:
An intense, vibrant debut novel set among the back roads of Pennsylvania's mining country
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.
With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all.
Funny and heartbreaking, O'Dell's pitch-perfect characters capture the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable new talent.