Jennifer Connelly might rejoin her What’s Wrong with Virginia? co-star Ed Harris in George Ratliff’s Salvation Boulevard. Variety reports that Connelly, Greg Kinnear and possibly Marisa Tomei might join the already cast Pierce Brosnan, Jim Gaffigan and Harris in the film which will begin shooting next month.
Ratliff (who we interviewed back in 07 for his horror drama Joshua) co-wrote the project with Douglas Stone (debut credit). Based on the novel by Larry Beinhart, I’m looking at the plot description below and I’m not sure who is assigned what role (if someone could clue me that’d be helpful).
The project goes off the deep end with religious backgrounds (I wonder what neighborhood this takes place in?) and starts with a professor is dead and a suspect—who has confessed— and is in custody. But nothing is what it seems. The dead man is an atheist, the accused an Islamic foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew, and the detective a Born Again Christian. As the detective gets deeper and deeper into the investigation of the death of the professor, his most basic beliefs and relationships are tried, his world is turned upside down. And yet he can’t stop searching for the real killer and the truth—no matter what the personal cost.
