Some more names have been added to the cast of John Hillcoat’s follow-up to The Road, including an actor who involvement will make this the third collaboration with the director.
Guy Pearce and Gary Oldman are onboard for The Wettest County in the World, another adaptation for the director and based on the novel of the same name by Matt Bondurant, which follows the true-life tale of a pair of bootlegging siblings in Prohibition-era Virginia.
Pearce (who appeared in Hillcoat’s The Proposition and The Road) will play a violent deputy who comes down hard on the two protagonists (played by the already-cast Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy), while Oldman is down to play a gangster who seeks out the lead character’s help to deliver alcohol.
The Kids Are All Right and Alice in Wonderland star Mia Wasikowska has also signed on, alongside Jason Clarke (US TV’s Chicago Code).
News via The Hollywood Reporter
