Crazy Heart’s Scott Cooper has an exciting future ahead of him. He’s currently in pre-production stage to direct a revenge flick called Out of the Furnace, which will star Christian Bale and is being produced by Tony Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio. Zoe Saldana, Casey Affleck, Robert Duvall and Viggo Mortensen are supposedly in talks to co-star.
According to sources, the plot of Out of the Furnace involves a man (Bale) who has just been released from prison. Before he has a chance to enjoy his newly-found freedom, his brother is brutally murdered. The man then decides to hunt down the killers himself.
Updates: Total Film reports that Casey Affleck is officially in.