Director: Andrew Neel Starring: Nick Jonas, Virginia Gardner, Ben Schnetzer ReleaseDate: TBC 2016 Produced by James Franco, fraternity drama Goat, based on Brad Lands memoir, is finally going ahead after a long gestation period. One-time indie darling David Gordon Green wrote the initial draft of the screenplay, which has been revised by director Andrew Neel (whose found footage film, King Kelly, was a hit as SXSW) and co-writer Mike Roberts. Starring Jonas Brother, Nick (in his first real lead role as an actor), the film sees a nineteen-year-old boy and his brother enrol into the same brutal fraternity. Once in, their notions of brotherhood are tested to the limit. Lands memoir, despite its stylistic limitations prose-wise, is nevertheless a hard-hitting affair, filled with a to-the-bone honesty which makes for an altogether harrowing account of one of college lifes most under-reported subcultures (at least on film, anyway). Such subject matter should make for a tough film, and with James Franco involved Goat is sure to get its fair share of publicity. This could be an early contender for the most talked about indie of 2016, and its set for a Sundance appearance in the competition line-up.