He’s just been cast in a massive movie; the planned Legendary backed SKULL ISLAND, and he’ll also be playing Hank Williams in an upcoming project named I SAW THE LIGHT, and now it looks like his on-screen brother in the THOR movies, Chris Hemsworth, is all set to star in a similarly themed project named I’LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE.
The film will be based on the novel of the same name by Steve Earle. Here’s the synopsis.
Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.
In 1963, ten years after Hank’s death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn’t as easy to support as it used to be. So he lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc’s services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe, for Hank’s angry ghost — who isn’t at all pleased to see Doc doing well.
Hemsworth will play Ebersole and will also produce. Benjamin Grayson will make his directing debut on the film after working alongside Kenneth Branagh on THOR.
Hemsworth has just started work on the VACATION reboot. Expect to see him gear up for this right after that.
Source: The Wrap
