"Straight Outta Compton’s" Jason Mitchell, as well as Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, and Garrett Hedlund are are in negotiations to star in a big-screen adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s 2009 novel "Mudbound," which Dee Rees is attached to direct.
Jordan’s award-winning debut novel is set in 1946, and follows the city-bred Laura McAllan who is trying to raise her children on her husband’s Mississippi Delta cotton farm just after WWII, and two soldiers returning home from the war – one of them is white, and the other is black.
Rees ("Pariah," "Bessie") will directing the independently-financed drama from a script she’s rewriting,…
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