Teaming up Tom Hardy and Michael Shannon is quite a potent combination, as they have signed on to star in The Long Red Road for Paul Neesan and Richard Fant’s Whipsmart production company, according to Variety.
The film is adapted from the Brett C. Leonard play about Sam (Tom Hardy), a man who tries to drink his sorrows away on a South Dakota Indian reservation. He is forced to reevaluate his life when a face from his past comes to visit. Tom Hardy will reprise the same role he portrayed in the play, which debuted at Chicago’s Goodman Theater in 2010. Michael Shannon is playing Sam’s older brother.
Philip Seymour Hoffman directed the original play, but it isn’t known if he will take the helm on this feature adaptation.