Billy Bob Thornton will do battle with dangerous neighbourhood thugs when he signed up to an adaptation of Leif Enger’s book Peace Like A River.
The novel, which doesn’t sound very peaceful, is loaded with loyalty, revenge and crime and sees an American family descend into violence when the criminals wage war on them. The film has a script – by Kathy McWorter, who penned Elijah Wood’s coming-of-age movie The War – and plans to shoot in Canada this autumn. Now all it really needs is a director.