Looking to follow-up his last directorial effort, Sean Penn is again venturing back into the wild for an adaptation of Crazy for the Storm, based on the true story of Norman Ollestadd, who at the age of eleven survived a plane crash that left him stranded in the San Gabriel Mountains. It's an incredible, harrowing story, and nobody's making jokes about Ollestad the way they do Into the Wild's Christopher McCandless.
Penn is looking to reunite with his Milk co-star, Josh Brolin, as Variety reports he's now in talks to join the film. No deals are in place just yet for either Penn or Brolin, but if all falls into place we could see production begin in the first quarter of 2013. Brolin would play Ollestad's father, who got his son into surfing and extreme sports from an early age. He was killed along with his girlfriend in the plane crash, leaving the eleven year old Ollestad to fend for himself in harsh blizzard conditions. Will Fetters is adapting Ollestad's memoir for the big screen.
If what Spike Lee said was accurate, Brolin should be heading over to shoot the Oldboy remake in October.
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