Wow. Leif Enger’s gorgeous novel Peace Like a River is going to be a movie starring Billy Bob Thornton.
I am giddy about this news. Thornton will be great in this role. Now, let’s all pray they find some equally talented young actors to play his children.
When I read this book, the whole time I was thinking “Robert Redford is going to make this movie. It has the feel of grace that runs through A River Runs Through It.”
Instead, the guy who everybody said looked like a young Redford in A River Runs Through It is going to get the movie made (at least as the producer.) Who’s gonna direct? I vote for David Gordon Green or Jacob Aaron Estes.
Brad Pitt’s producing Billy Bob Thornton? There’s gotta be some way to bring Jonny Lee Miller (Angelina Jolie husband number one), too!
That is a gorgeous, wonderful book. I hope the movie conveys the same graceful spirit — even though it’s not (I hope) from the people making the film, the summary as a “tale of loyalty and revenge” seems to me to miss the point.