Sam Shepard is attached to star in "Descending From Heaven: The Strange and Extraordinary Tale of Claude Eatherly, A-Bomb Pilot" for director Sandy Smolan and producer Marcia Nasatir says The Hollywood Reporter.
The $10 million period biopic will recount the story of the pilot who flew the reconnaissance B-29 that gave the OK to drop the bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
Shepard will play the pilot's father, who eventually had to commit his son to a veteran's psychiatric hospital.
