Succession fame Alan Ruck joins the ensemble cast of the Amazon film “The Burial”, starring Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett, Mamoudou Athie, Bill Camp, Dorian Missick, Pamela Reed, Amanda Warren, and Jim Klock alongside.
The upcoming drama feature is directed by Maggie Betts, potrays the true story of a legal fight over a funeral home chain during the 1990s, based on Jonathan Harr’s 1999 article in the New Yorker magazine.
It follows the story of a charming personal injury lawyer Willie Gary, popular for his appealing track record and a highly atypical approach. He decides to provide assistance to a bankrupt funeral home owner Ray Loewen so that he can protect his family business from a monstrous corporate mammoth, Jeremiah O’Keefe. On the way to bring sentimental resonance to a dry contract law case, the lawyer excavates a surprisingly intricate mesh of race, power and oppression that compels everyone to under-see deeply dug prejudices they didn’t foresee.
It is bankrolled by Bobby Shriver under Bobby Shriver Inc., along with Double Nickel Entertainment’s Adam Richman and Jenette Kahn, Foxx and Datari Turner, and Maven Pictures’ Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray. Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright adapted the screenplay. The character of Ruck hasn’t been revealed yet.
Ruck’s other TV credits include his famous role as Cameron Frye in ”Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Spin City,” “Twister, Speed,” “Bad Boys,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “Star Trek: Generations,” “Mad About You,” among many others. He also starred in “Justified,” “Picket Fences,” “Boston Legal,” “The Exorcist,” “ Hot in Cleveland,” “Masters of Sex,” “Bunheads,” “One Day at a Time,” “Scrubs and From the Earth to the Moon.”