My sources for a little bit of casting news were off (if you read what I wrote here), it looks like casting people were able to find someone who looked the part a bit more. Sam Rockwell will play the sibling behind bars in the Hilary Swank drama. Minnie Driver also comes on board for a role.
This is based on the true story of a high school dropout (Swank) who represented her brother (Rockwell) in a murder case. It tells how Waters, an unemployed single mother of two, saw her brother begin serving a life sentence in 1983 for murder and robbery. Convinced that he was innocent, she spent the next 12 years taking the steps to earn a law degree, and in 1995 she began focusing on her brother’s case. Challenging the conviction with DNA evidence, she proved her brother’s innocence, and in March 2001, Kenneth Waters walked out a free man.
We should see plenty of Sam Rockwell in 2009/2010. He is coming off a great performance in Duncan Jones’ Moon which preemed at Sundance.
