Paul Haggis is in talks to next direct Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron in The Garden of Elah, eyeing a late-year start date for the drama, reports Variety.
Warner Independent Pictures will distribute domestically, because WB owns the underlying material from which Haggis wrote the script. Genesis of the project was Death and Dishonor, a Playboy magazine article written by Mark Boal that WB bought last year for Haggis and his producing partner Larry Becsey.
Jones will play a career soldier whose son mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq. Theron will play a local police detective who helps him get to the bottom of the soldier's disappearance. Haggis has been scouting locations around Albuquerque and in Texas.
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Paul Haggis is in talks to next direct Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron in The Garden of Elah, eyeing a late-year start date for the drama, reports Variety.
