Director Alexander Payne is set to team with Amazon Studios for a new film called The Burial. Payne, whose last film was the movie Downsizing, which was met with a fairly mixed response, is officially in early talks to take the gig, so reports Deadline.
The trace blog says that the film is based on the true legal exploits of Willie Gary, a successful personal-injury lawyer from Mississippi. He takes on the case of Jeremiah O’Keefe, the owner of a local chain of funeral homes who claimed he had been swindled by a major funeral parlor conglomerate. The rags-to-riches lawyer turns it into a David vs. Goliath morality play.
Doug Wright wrote the screenplay.
