A couple months ago Juno writer Diablo Cody announced she was set to make her directorial debut with Lamb Of God, and now she’s getting ready to cast the main role. And who does she want? Well, none other than Russell Brand, who’s now in talks to play the lead male character of William in the movie, according to Twitch, while it appears Footloose’s Julianne Hough is being eyed for the female lead.
The comedy movie follows a young conservative religious woman (the titular Lamb Of God) who loses her faith after a plane crash, decides to go to Las Vegas to live the life of a sinner, and on her journey finds her way back to her faith. The Playlist has discovered that William is a bartender who befriends the toung woman after she arrives in Vegas.
If Hough does get the role, it would reunite her with Brand, who she’s recently being working with on the set of Rock Of Ages.