Trio Find That It Gets "Cold in July"

Sam Shepard, Vinessa Shaw, and Don Johnson have joined Stake Land and "We Are What We Are" director Jim Mickle's thriller "Cold in July" says Variety.

Nick Damici and Mickle wrote the adapted script of author Joe R. Lansdale's 1989 cult novel about Dane (Michael C. Hall) who, after killing an armed burglar in his living room in self-defense, finds his own son the target of the burglar's father who wants eye-for-an-eye style revenge.

 Shepard and Johnson are Dane's sidekicks and Shaw his wife.

Linda Moran and Rene Bastian will produce the film

Production is underway for release next year