‘Take Shelter’ Director Casts Matthew McConaughey And Reese Witherspoon In ‘Mud’
By Russ Fischer/Aug. 5, 2011 6:30 pm EST
Deadline summarizes Mud as “a redemptive tale of a charismatic fugitive and his unlikely friendship with a 14-year-old kid who is determined to help Mud escape from the law and some tough bounty hunters so he can reunite with his soul mate Juniper.” Tye Sheridan (The Tree of Life) is in talks to play the boy.
Matthew McConaughey has been on a slight renaissance tear of late, with The Lincoln Lawyer, Richard Linklater’s Bernie and upcoming roles in William Friedkin’s Killer Joe and Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy making it seem like he has decided to sidestep the middlebrow romcom path he’s been on for a while. Reese Witherspoon could use her own reinvention, as most of her post-Walk the Line films have also been pretty forgettable. What we know about Mud so far suggests that she might not have a particularly big role, but here’s hoping that it’s a step in the right direction, regardless.
