The film follows a "geriatric gin-hound of a dad" who takes his estranged son with him from Montana to Publisher's Clearing House headquarters — with a detour through Omaha, Nebraska — in order to claim a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
I so want Hackman to un retire....
Payne was casting the film back in August with plans to shoot next April. But when it was said he wanted to shoot the film entirely in black-and-white, the studio pulled the film's $20 million budget.
Payne has now won the battle to keep the film in black-and-white but only after compromising over a much smaller budget--cut by half and getting a big-name actor to play the father.
Payne's next the George Clooney-led "The Descendants" is considered a front-runner for the upcoming awards season
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