
By Romeo San Vicente
Collette and Eckhart Sign on for Ball
Given that gay writer
Alan Ball's first produced screenplay, American Beauty, took
home a whole bushel of Oscars (including one for Ball himself), it's no
wonder that the Six Feet Under creator's feature-film directorial
debut is garnering interest from some major Hollywood players.
Romeo previously reported that Ball will make his first stab at
big-screen directing with Towelhead, about a Lebanese-American
teen girl growing up in Texas during the first Gulf War. But now, three
of Hollywood's hottest talents have joined the project.
The ever-busy Toni Collette, hunky Aaron Eckhart (Thank
You for Smoking), and Maria Bello (who should have snagged an
Oscar nomination for A History of Violence) will all appear in
the film, which is slated to start shooting in mid-September.
Look for it in theaters sometime in 2007.
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