Billy Bob Thornton's planned directorial venture, Jayne Mansfield's Car, is coming together, with Deadline reporting that Kevin Bacon, John Hurt, Robert Patrick, and Ray Stevenson have joined the cast of the film, and that Robert Duvall is now officially confirmed, having first been rumoured back in January.
Thornton also co-wrote the screenplay with Jane Espenson, which is about the culture clash of two families from different continents in 1969. Duvall will play a man left to raise his children after his wife leaves him and goes to England to start a new family. However after the wife dies, she requests to be buried in the States, which brings together the woman's American and English families for the first time - and not surprisingly, things get complicated. There's no news on who any of the new actors will play though.
And quite what any of this has to do with Jayne Mansfield's Car, is anyone's guess!
The movie is now fully able to go ahead, with AR Films stepping in to finance indie project. As a result, production is scheduled to start on June 22 in Atlanta, Georgia, marking Thornton's first time behind the camera since 2001's Daddy And Them.