Emile Hirsch Living 'The Motel Life'

One of Hollywood's finest young talents has found a new project. 

The Trades are reporting Emile Hirsch (who hasn't been seen in a major role since 2008's Milk) has joined the film adaptation of Willy Vlautin's novel, The Motel Life.  Hirsch is the first to sign on to the project which is still without a director or writer (must have been a hell of a novel if there's no script yet).

The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers who skip Reno after being involved in a fatal accident.  No word yet on who will play Hirsch's brother in the film, but can I suggest James Franco?  Him and Hirsch seem to have gone down similar career paths and would be great to see them together on screen again.

Production is aiming to start sometime this year so expect more announcements on this project coming sooner rather than later.

The full synopsis for The Motel Life is listed below [via Amazon]:

In a gritty debut, Vlautin explores a few weeks in the broken lives of two working-class brothers, Frank and Jerry Lee Flannigan, who abruptly ditch their Reno motel after Jerry Lee drunkenly kills a boy on a bicycle in a hit-and-run. The two are case studies in hard luck: their mother died when they were 14 and 16, respectively; their father is an ex-con deadbeat; neither finished high school. Frank has had just one girlfriend, motel neighbor Annie, whose mother is an abusive prostitute. An innocent simpleton, Jerry Lee is left feeling suicidal after the accident, despite his younger brother's efforts (à la Of Mice and Men's Lenny and George) to console him: "It was real quiet, the way he cried," says Frank, "like he was whimpering." On returning to Reno, an eventual reckoning awaits them. Vlautin's coiled, poetically matter-of-fact prose calls to mind S.E. Hinton—a writer well-acquainted with male misfit protagonists seeking redemption, no matter how destructive. Despite the bleak story and its inevitably tragic ending, Vlautin, who plays in the alt-country band Richmond Fontaine, transmits a quiet sense of resilience and hopefulness.