Discussed for development as a feature film last week at DFW.com, writer/director David Lowery is expanding his award-winning short film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints into a feature film. Today, Deadline adds that Casey Affleck, Ben Foster and Rooney Mara are all circling roles.
Premiering at Sundance earlier this year, Lowrey’s short film was officially described as follows:
“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” tells the story of an outlaw who, in the 1970s, escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas countryside to reunite with his wife and the daughter he never met. Along the way, however, his past starts to catch up with him.