Here is the first promotional poster for Leaves of Grass, which doesn’t even begin filming until September 22 of this year. When I last talked about it, it was being reported that Edward Norton was directing as well as starring alongside his friend and The Incredible Hulk co-star Tim Blake Nelson. Now, we get word that it will be Nelson who wrote the entire screenplay and will be directing his good friend Norton. Cinematical was at TIFF when Nelson and Norton made an appearance to discuss their upcoming film.

The movie follows two twin brothers, both of who are being played by Norton in a role that Nelson wrote specifically for him. The one brother “Bill Kincaid is a buttoned-up Ivy League philosophy professor; his pot-growing twin brother lures him back to his hometown in rural Oklahoma for an ill-conceived deal to bilk a local drug-lord (Richard Dreyfuss), described by Nelson as being like ‘a Jewish T. Boone Pickens in the Tulsa Jewish community.’ Bill gets entangled in his brother’s schemes and implicated in a murder, and his ordered philosophical life starts to fall apart. Also starring in the film are Susan Sarandon as Bill’s estranged mother and Keri Russell as a love interest for one of the brothers. Nelson will play the friend of one of the brothers.”

It will film on a budget of $14 million in Shreveport, Louisiana. And this sounds fantastic! The more Norton, the better, and this time we get twice the Norton for the price of one. My only complaint is that he is not playing triplets. I’m keeping my eyes heavily fixated on this one, so when I know more, so will you.