Armory Films has announced that Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey, How to be Single) and two-time Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern (Nebraska, The Hateful Eight) will join Shia LaBeouf (American Honey, Transformers, Lawless) in The Peanut Butter Falcon, which was written and will be directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz (The Moped Diaries).
Gottsagen lives with high-functioning Down syndrome, and became the inspiration for The Peanut Butter Falcon after writing/directing duo Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz met him while working at a non-profit arts organization.
Burnett won an Academy Award for Original Song for Crazy Heart in 2009, and was also nominated for Cold Mountain in 2003.
The Peanut Butter Falcon follows a down on his luck crab fisherman as he embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wresting school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived most of his life.