Emile Hirsch Joins Oliver Stone’s SAVAGES

The casting process of directorOliver Stone‘s project, SAVAGES adaptation is moving fast. Just the other day you heard that Blake Lively signed on to play female lead O and that both Uma Thurman and John Travolta are also in talks to show up in the film. Today, Variety said Emile Hirsch has officially joined the cast, the reports doesn’t state what his role will be..

In SAVAGES, based on Don Winslow‘s novel, Aaron Johnson will play Ben and Taylor Kitsch will play Chon, they’re two best friends who are pot growers in Laguna and they’re also friends with a girl named O who has relations with each
And then they got visited by a drug enforcer named Lado to be played by Benicio Del Toro, who tells them they will have to work for his boss, a Mexican cartel matriarch. They say no, O gets kidnapped and next thing, they’re forced to come up with ransom money.

Blake Lively will play O
John Travolta will play a burned out DEA agent named Dennis
Uma Thurman will play O’s mom, Paqu.
Salma Hayek will play Mexican cartel queen-pin Elena

Production starts in July