Date 11/04/2017 - News People
Ron Howard will step behind the camera to both direct and produce the upcoming contemporary economic drama Hillbilly Elegy. The project is based on the 2016 bestselling memoir of the same name by author J.D. Vance. It tells the story of Vance - a hero born in Kentucky, who grew up in the Rust Belt. The Rust Belt is an area of the United States from the Great Lakes to the upper Midwest where deindustrialisation has caused economic decline, population loss, and urban decay. The film documents "the everyday struggles of America's white working class as they navigate through drug addiction, and social and economic challenges."