Oscar winners Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) and Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) will be joined in their latest project, Stillwater, by Academy-Award nominated actress Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine). Variety reports the actress will play Damon’s daughter in the film.
Stillwater focuses on an “American oil-rig rough neck from Oklahoma, played by Damon, who travels to Mareille to visit his estranged daughter who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit.”
Damon’s character Bill must traverse language barriers and cultural difference to exonerate his daughter via a complicated legal system, all the while developing a friendship with a local woman and embarking on a personal journey of discovery.
McCarthy co-wrote the script with Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré. The film will be produced via Participant Media along with Anonymous Conent, Liza Chasin, Jonathan King, Tom McCarthy. Jeff Skoll and Mari Jo Winkler-loffreda will executive produce.
