As he starts work on his new film, Exam director Stuart Hazeldine is building quite the cast. With Octavia Spencer already attached to play no lesser role than God, Sam Worthington is now aboard as the lead.
Adapted by John Fusco from William Paul Young’s 2007 novel, the story follows a man (Worthington) whose youngest daughter is kidnapped during a family holiday. Evidence turns up in an abandoned shack to suggest she was murdered, which stymies the case. But then, four years later, he receives a note, apparently from God, inviting him to go back to the ruined building. He accepts, against his better judgment, and what he finds there changes his life forever. Given whom Spencer is playing, we’re guessing it won’t be a false lead.
Hazeldine has been busy setting up the film, which has yet to lock in a release date. As for Worthington, he was recently attached to Gerard Butler heist thriller **Den Of Thieves and will next be seen on our screens in Everest, due September 25. There’s also the small matter of several Avatar sequels still lurking on his to-do list as soon as James Cameron is ready to revisit Pandora.