Just a couple of days ago word arrived that Nat Wolff had secured a role in James Franco’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle, but the actor/director isn’t finished bolstering his already impressive cast. He now has Josh Hutcherson, Zach Braff, Analeigh Tipton, Ashley Greene and Ahna O’Reilly aboard to appear.
Franco is also starring as Jim Nolan, a man who becomes involved in the labour movement and learns about the struggles of workers during a strike in a California valley.
The new arrivals join Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, John Savage and Sam Shepard in the cast for the film, which Franco has now started shooting in Georgia, working from a script by Matt Rager.
Hutcherson, of course, has largely been busy with the Hunger Games films, though he’s squeezed other work in between. He’ll next be seen in Mockingjay – Part 2, which lands here on November 20. Braff, who appeared with Franco in Oz The Great And Powerful, starred in and directed last year’s Wish I Was Here and has a variety of shorts and other directing gigs in the works. Tipton will appear in sci-fi horror thriller Viral, while** ** Greene has Urge and Shangri-La Suite on the way and O’Reilly will crop up in Peter Bogdanovich’s new comedy She’s Funny That Way.