Mary Harron will direct The Highway That Eats People, based on the 2010 novel The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich, Screen Daily reported. Harron has co-written the script with her American Psycho collaborator, Guinevere Turner. WestEnd Films is handling international sales.
Anna Cobb (Bones & All) and Charlie Plummer (The Return) lead a cast that also includes Rory Culkin, Jim Gaffigan, Jack Haven, and Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney. The film is produced by Emily Kim Wiedemann of Greencard Pictures, Euphoria costume designer Heidi Bivens, Kevin Shulman and Joshua Astrachan of production company Animal Kingdom. Filming is set to begin this fall in the U.S.
"I am very excited to work with WestEnd Films to bring The Highway That Eats People to the screen," Harron said. "The story is both violent and darkly funny, frightening and poignant--a road movie through a hallucinatory American no man's land that I believe is perfectly attuned to these unsettling times."