Columbia picks up 'Wettest County'

March 31, 2008 The studio has pre-emptively picked up the upcoming book by Matt Bondurant for Red Wagon to produce. The novel, a sweeping, historical crime drama of the American South, is based on the author's grandfather and two grand-uncles -- three infamous brothers who made up a fierce criminal gang at the center of the country's moonshine trade. At the same time, writer Sherwood Anderson was on the trail of the bootlegging story, reporting on the moonshine trade and the trial for Liberty magazine and researching his novel "Kit Brandon," published in 1936.

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