Focus Features has set Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo to star for director Terry George in "Reservation Road," an adaptation of the John Burnham Schwartz novel reports Variety.
Phoenix and Ruffalo will play fathers on opposite sides of a hit-and-run: The Ruffalo character kills Phoenix's son and flees. As the grieving father seeks revenge, the tragedy wears on both men in unexpected ways. Schwartz wrote the screenplay, and George polished it.
The less than $20 million drama will shoot this fall as the first project under Focus' partnership with book publisher Random House. Phoenix just wrapped the James Gray-directed drama "We Own the Night," while Ruffalo has three pics in the can: "All the King's Men," "Zodiac" and "Margaret".
