Sam Shepard is attached to appear in the unnecesarily long titled
Descending From Heaven: The Strange and Extraordinary Tale of Claude Eatherly, A-Bomb Pilot. Plot info from
Coming Soon...
"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". Sounds like powerful stuff and a story worth telling. I enjoyed Sam Shepard's brief role as
Ryan Gosling's father in
The Notebook, I thought he did a terrific job of playing a nice guy Dad. source -
the hollywood reporter,
coming soon