The cast for Ron Howard's adaptation of "Hillbilly Elegy" is shaping up:

Gabriel Basso in the Netflix’s adaptation of the best-selling book.

The story is about a three generations of an Appalachian family as told by its youngest member (who'll be played by Basso), a Yale law student forced to return to his hometown

"The Shape of Water" screenwriter Vanessa Taylor adapted the script. Howard, Brian Grazer and Karen Lunder are producing for Imagine Entertainment.

Bennett has two other Netflix films in the pipeline: The thriller “The Devil All the Time,” with Ben Kingsley.

[Via Variety]