John Hillcoat's adaptation of the
Matt Bondurant novel
The Wettest Country in the World isn't happening yet. It was set up at Columbia for some time, but put into turnaround by the studio. Now producers
Douglas Wick and
Lucy Fisher (who did
Jarhead and
Memoirs of a Geisha and are working on Nicolas Winding Refn's
Jekyll at Universal) are trying to make the film work as an indie. Because there is interest from a bevy of