Matt Bondurant

Matt Bondurant is a contemporary, prize-winning American writer and author of the books The Third Translation and The Wettest County in the World.

Bondurant was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. His family's ancestral home in Franklin County, VA is the setting of his prohibition-era historical novel The Wettest County in the World, which tells the tale of his grandfather and granduncles as they run a massive moonshining operation in the mountains of southern Virginia.^[1][2]

Bondurant was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference and a Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University. He graduated from James Madison University, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Bondurant is currently a literature and creative writing professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.

In 2010, director John Hillcoat planned to make a film, The Wettest County in the World, based on Bondurant's novel and starring Shia LaBeouf^[3] but the project was shut down as a result of financing problems.^[4][5] An indie studio revived the project. Filming is set to begin in late February 2011, with Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska and Jessica Chastain added to the cast.^[6]

References

1. ^ Dang, Paul (February 15, 2011). "Prof novel enters Hollywood". utdmercury.com. http://www.utdmercury.com/life-arts/prof-novel-enters-hollywood-1.1981731. Retrieved February 18, 2011. 
2. ^ http://www.mattbondurant.com/
3. ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20234995,00.html
4. ^ http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/01/04/john-hillcoats-the-promised-land-adaptation-gets-shut-down/
5. ^ http://www.collider.com/2010/01/04/director-john-hillcoat-wont-reach-the-promised-land/
6. ^ Kit, Borys (February 9, 2011). "Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman Join 'Wettest County in the World' (Berlin Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/guy-pearce-gary-oldman-join-97725. Retrieved February 9, 2011. 

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