Ben Stiller and Colin Farrell to Co-Star in Film BELLY OF THE BEAST From Director Andrew Haigh

Ben Stiller (Meet the Parents, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges, The Batman) have signed on to star in the film Belly of the Beast, from director Andrew Haigh (The OA, All of Us Strangers).

The story is based of the 1981 non-fiction novel In the Belly of the Beast, written by Jack Henry Abbott. The book collects letters that Abbott wrote to journalist Norman Mailer while he was in prison for approximately a decade. Once he received parole, Abbott struggled with readapting to life outside prison and went on to commit an erroneous crime just weeks after being released.

Stiller will play Mailer in Haigh’s movie, while Farrell will play Abbott. Haigh and Alexis Jolly wrote the script, which is based on a 2017 novel — Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer’s “The Executioner’s Song” — written by Jerome Loving that details Mailer and Abbot’s relationship.

This sounds like a great project for the two talented actors. We will let you know more about casting and a release date as the project develops.