"The book of Joe"

I haven't heard anything about this one but it sounds very promising.

This is another Tropper novel (he wrote This is Where I Leave You). Tim tends to find scribes he likes and stick with them, doesn't he? I'm glad to see him working against typecasting. He's definitely looking to his post-Raylan career. This movie has a great cast and a lot of potential.

On a side note...I loved Lee Pace in Pushing Daisies. Glad to see him in something promising.

Edited to add...I can't find anything else about this anywhere. I really hope it's true, and Leiv Schrieber's comment would lead me to believe it is...hopefully we'll hear more soon.

I'm very intrigued. Complex and juicy role for TO. Hope it happens.

If this is real, that is some dream casting!

If Wikipedia can be trusted, Brad Pitt is the sole owner of Plan B Entertainment.

Based on the bare bones descriptions of the characters, I could see Pitt playing the part of the author(Lee Pace's role) or the former star athlete (TO's role). I wonder which role intrigued him when he optioned the project or did he always plan to simply produce it?

Well the very brief article does say they started it, but he has been the sole owner since 2006. So he may have bought out her share.

Don't care for Schrieber, but I lurve Timmy and Lee and Ginnifer. Sounds like a great script and, as you point out, a slightly different departure from where we've see TO recently. imdb has it listed as "post-production with no info.

I just read this book, by Tropper, over the weekend and then found the thread started here about it.
from the link:

"The Book of Joe
Directed by Cameron Crowe
Based on the novel by Jonathan Tropper

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Plot Description: Joe's father has just had suffered a stroke and lies comatose. So it's back to Bush Falls, Connecticut for the town pariah, the national bestselling author (whose book became a huge hit movie) who savaged almost everyone in his hometown in his novel. Within hours of his arrival, Joe's return ignites a maelstrom of reactions: His older brother avoids him; former classmates threaten to beat him up (and worse); and members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his childhood home. But while Bush falls may be less than thrilled to see Joe, it becomes clear that Joe needed to see Bush Falls. As he walks the familiar streets, he revisits the terrible events of his senior year - 1996 - a year of passion, betrayal, and catastrophe from which he's never fully recovered.
Lee Pace as Joe Goffman

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The black sheep of a basketball family in THE basketball town in the state. Joe was never talented enough to play for the Bush Fall Cougars, but even if he had been he would have refused on principle. In high school he was seen as the "never was," a chip he's kept on his shoulder his entire life and which drove him to leave town right after high school and never look back - except to write a tell-all novel that eviscerated many and painted everyone not how they were, but how Joe had perceived them to be.

Timothy Olyphant as Wayne Hargrove
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The former star forward who walked out on high school and the town (but not before scoring the most points in school history in his final game) after his high school boyfriend's suicide. It was Wayne's love affair with Sammy Haber the summer before senior year that cost Sammy his life, Bush Falls the championship, and Joe nearly everything. But now, as Joe discovers, Wayne harbors an even more devastating secret. Wayne is the only one who is happy to see Joe return to Bush Falls and serves as the catalyst to a number of misadventures, run-ins with the law, and ultimately his reunion with "the one that got away."

Ginnifer Goodwin as Charlotte "Charley" Smithson
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The woman who, as a girl, defined so much of who Joe was and wanted to be. Charley is very much the every-girl, girl-next-door type who went from high school yearbook editor to Rolling Stone staff writer and full circle back to now editing the small, local Bush Falls newspaper. What she keeps to herself, though not particularly well as Joe notes a guarded physical exterior which was once so exuberant (even noting that she "cut her hair short"), is that her divorce was preceded by more than a year of physical abuse. Charley is, by Joe's own admission, the first and only girl he ever loved, though - also by his own admission - he royally screwed that up... twice. "


I'm glad I read it before I knew about TO's role, but I can see him now as Wayne. It will be interesting. I think a much larger role than "Horry" in "This Is Where I Leave You". I am anxious to see this film. Could not find many details as IMDB still lists it as pre-production with no dates indicated. Something for this winter maybe, between Season 5 and Season 6? Tropper has written many books that seem to be headed for Hollywood...as I was reading this last one, I thought he was writing with movie production in mind.

Thanks for posting. Now I want to read it.

I haven't read that one yet but I just bought another Tropper book yesterday "Everything Changes" which it says id also being considered for filming. He is a very popular guy is Mr. Tropper.