Image Entertainment has earned the distribution rights to ‘In the Electric Mist’… a new thriller, based on James Lee Burke’s novel, from director Bertrand Tavernier (’Round Midnight’). The film will star Tommy Lee Jones with a talented supporting cast that includes John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen, Ned Beatty, Peter Sarsgaard and Kelly MacDonald. Image plans to release the film in Spring of 2009.

Plot: New Iberia Lt. Dave Robicheaux is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni-back in his home parish as co- producer of Hollywood director Michael Goldman’s Civil War film-when sizzled/psychic movie-star Elrod Sykes, pulled over for drunk driving, starts babbling about a corpse he found in the Atchafalaya Swamp-the corpse of a black man Dave had seen murdered 35 years before. — IMDB

[source:Variety.com]