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Guy Pearce and Gary Oldman are joining the cast of John Hillcoat's gangster movie Wettest County in the World . Mia Wasikowska and Jason Clarke are also boarding the movie. The quartet join a cast toplined by Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy and also includes Jessica Chastain . Based on the novel The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant , and on his grandfather and two great-uncles, the true gangsters story details of the saga of the Bondurant boys, bootlegging siblings who take the law into their own hands in Prohibition-era Virginia while making a run for the American Dream. Nick Cave wrote the screenplay. Pearce will play an overly violent deputy who comes down hard on the Bondurants while Oldman will play a gangster who engages the boys to deliver alcohol. Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland and The Kids Are All Right) plays LeBeouf's love interest, a local Mennonite girl. Clarke (TV's Chicago Code) is playing the brother to LaBeouf and Hardy. The movie i...

"The Wettest County in the World" Is Attracting Hollywood A List “Wettest” is a sweeping, historical crime drama of the American South, based on the author Matt Bondurant ’s grandfather and two great-uncles — three brothers who made up a fierce criminal gang at the center of the country’s moonshine trade (it's that kind of wetness). The book also tracks a parallel story involving a writer named Sherwood Anderson who was on the trail of the bootlegging story, reporting on the moonshine trade and researching his 1936 novel " Kit Brandon ." Shia LaBeouf, Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Gosling are among the actors whose names have been presented as associated with the project to reps and execs around town (though none is yet on board). The names of Paul Dano and Michael Shannon have also surfaced in connection with the project. Between them, the group has seven Oscar and Golden Globe nominations (thank you, Gosling, Johansson and Shannon) and three of the ten highest-g...