'Broken Circle Breakdown' Director Felix van Groeningen To Helm Former Cameron Crowe Project 'Beautiful Boy'

Before he shipwrecked with "Aloha," a couple of years back Cameron Crowe was shepherding along an adaptation of  David Sheff's memoir, "Beautiful Boy: a Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction." After working through some script issues, Mark Wahlberg circled the movie but Crowe decided to make his Hawaii rom-com instead. Well, producer Brad Pitt is ready to get the wheels in motion again and he's found a new filmmaker to take charge.

Felix van Groeningen, the filmmaker behind the lovely, heartbreaking and Oscar nominated "The Broken Circle Breakdown," has now been tasked to helm "Beautiful Boy." Luke Davies (Anton Corbijn's "Life," and the novel "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction") has penned the script which also uses Nic Sheff's memoir “Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines” for source material, to tell the story of a father watches his son struggle through meth addiction and recovery. Here's the...