Fresh off her Best Actress nomination for Frozen River, Melissa Leo has joined the cast of an upcoming indie entitled Betty Ann Waters. The cast already includes Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver and Sam Rockwell.
Tony Goldwyn (The Last Kiss) directs from a script rewritten by Richard LaGravenese (Freedom Writers) from Pamela Gray’s original screenplay. Andy Karsch, Andrew Sugarman and Goldwyn are producing.
“Waters” centers on an unemployed single mother who saw her brother begin serving a life sentence in 1983 for murder and robbery. Convinced that he was innocent, she earned a law degree and challenged the conviction with DNA evidence, resulting in her brother being freed in 2001.
Swank’s playing the title character while Leo portrays the only woman officer at a local police station who’s trying to pin the murder on him.
Production commenced this week in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Source: Variety