A couple of weeks ago it was revealed that Sean Penn was planning to go back behind the camera to direct a movie called Crazy For The Storm and now Variety reports that Penn has found the man he wants to star, trying to recruit his old friend Josh Brolin for the main role.
The movie will be based on Norman Ollestad’s memoir, which centres on the writer’s relationship with his father, who taught him several different skills from a very young age. The plot also focuses on how those traits saved his life, when he was stranded on a mountaintop after surviving a plane crash, so there’s a bit of a thematic link to Penn’s previous directorial effort, Into the Wild, with this one.
Will Fetters is adapting the screenplay, with the plan to shoot early next year once Brolin has completed work on Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake.