What’s this? A new trailer for Tim Blake Nelson’s Leaves of Grass with twice the usual amount of Norton? Looks that way. Nelson, known for his off-kilter character work in films like O’ Brother, Wher Art Thou?, Holes and Minority Report, is directing and starring in this story of identical twins who conspire to take on a small-town drug lord together.
The plot synopsis sounds like an action movie, but the trailer is it’s own quirky little beast, with Edward Norton starring as both twins–one a shaggy pot dealer and the other a straight-laced Ivy League professor– and Richard Dreyfuss as the crime boss. Nelson looks to be recycling his usual, scruffy yokel and Keri Russell steps in to add the romantic interest, with Susan Sarandon playing the mother of the twins.
I think this has more than a little of the Coens’ Bros. feel to it, especially some of their earlier, sillier work like Raising Arizona. Nelson himself is a talented and versatile director, having done films as varied as the Othello adaptation ‘O’ and the war film ‘The Grey Zone.’ Norton, whom he recently worked with in The Incredible Hulk, looks to be having great fun with the double role.
Check out the trailer:
