Oscar winners
Sam Rockwell,
Octavia Spencer and
Allison Janney have been set to star in
The Heart, which will be the next film from writer-directors
Nat Faxon and
Jim Rash. The duo, who won the Adapted Screenplay Oscar with Alexander Payne for
The Descendants, will also helm this one next and start shooting at year’s end after they wrap their current project, Fox Searchlight’s
Downhill, now underway with Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus starring.
The Heart centers on Joe (Rockwell) and Lucy (Spencer) who, while desperate for cash, take the job of delivering a human heart from New York to Florida in 24 hours. When they realize their delivery is destined for a black-market buyer who illegally skipped the donor list, they attempt to reroute it to its rightful recipient, but they are soon hunted down by multiple insane criminals — including the greedy millionaire buyer, his scorned brother, and Lucy’s own drug-dealing ex-boss (Janney).
