Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden are in negotiations to star in Rails and Ties for Clint Eastwood‘s daughter Alison to direct.
The film marks the feature directorial debut of Eastwood and tells the story of the physical, emotional and psychological collision of two families that is set in motion when a suicidal mother parks her car, with her 9-year old son inside, on a railroad crossing and awaits the arrival of a speeding train. Bacon will play the train engineer, while Harden will be his wife.
The drama will be distributed by Warner Independent Pictures and is set to go into production early 2007 in Los Angeles.
