We’ve news on three more names joining DEXTER’s Michael C. Hall in the big-screen adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale’s cult 1989 crime novel COLD IN JULY. The film, currently being prepped by STAKE LAND and WE ARE WHAT WE ARE’s writer/director Jim Mickle and his frequent acting/scripting partner Nick Damici, centres on a small town Texas conduction worker who kills a burglar in self-defence. However, the young dead man’s dad wants vengeance!
Cold on July turns on Richard Dane, a small town frame builder from East Texas who kills a burglar in self-defense. The dead man’s father swears revenge: A son’s life for a son’s life. But the two guilt-stricken fathers become unlikely allies, aided by Dane’s tough-minded wife and a pig-raising detective from the Houston backwoods, as they discover a bigger secret, darker and more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.
The brilliant Sam Shepard (BLACK HAWK DOWN), Miami Vice’s Don Johnson and THE HILLS HAVE EYES stunner Vinessa Shaw are coming onboard as the main supporting cast mentioned on the official synopsis.
Source: Variety
