Some months ago, before shooting his latest film Jayne Mansfield's Car, Billy Bob Thornton said that there just aren't many movies being made lately that are really of interest to him. And indeed, the first trailer for his latest, which stars Thornton, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Frances O'Connor, Ray Stevenson, Robert Patrick, and what looks…
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Looks like Billy Bob Thornton is set with cast and financing for his next directorial effort, Jayne Mansfield's Car. But it also looks like neither of the recently reported additions, Dennis Quaid and Dwight Yoakam, might be in the movie. Get the full new roster after the break. We've known that Robert Duvall would have…
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Last year Billy Bob Thornton started to talk about a late '60s-set family drama called Jayne Mansfield's Car. He and Tom Epperson wrote the script, in part as a response to the fact that Mr. Thornton wasn't all that taken with a lot of the films being made lately, and he plans to direct it…
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We haven't heard a great deal about Jayne Mansfield's Car in the couple months since the first details came out. We know that Billy Bob Thornton is directing, and that he co-wrote the script with his One False Move collaborator Tom Epperson. Now Robert Duvall has announced that he'll be in the film, and he's…
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Billy Bob Thornton hasn't written and directed a film in almost ten years, and to hear him tell it, that's in part because he's a bit detached from the current film scene. But he and prior collaborator Tom Epperson (with whom he wrote The Gift and One False Move) have written a new script called…
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Billy Bob Thornton's directorial career has described an odd path. He broke out in a big way with his feature expansion of Sling Blade (from the short Some Call it a Sling Blade, directed by the late George Hickenlooper) and then went through the Weinstein wringer with All the Pretty Horses. His last film was…
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