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Certain aspects of Hank Williams' life have caught the eyes of two brothers from the world of Asgard. Tom Hiddleston (Loki) is set to play Hank Williams in a biopic called I Saw the Light. Now Chris Hemsworth (Thor) is set to star in and produce a movie that revolves around the life of Williams' doctor, Doc Ebersole. The country singer must be popular is Asgard.
The movie is based on the novel by Steve Earle called I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, and Benjamin Grayson will make his directorial debut with the indie film from a script that he wrote. Grayson was an assistant to Kenneth Branagh on the Thor production.
The story follows Toby “Doc” Ebersole, "who's haunted by the ghost of Hank Williams following his involvement in the country singer's mysterious death in 1953."
The title of the book and movie were taken from a 1952 song Williams co-wrote, and it happens to be the last single released during his lifetime. Here's a full description of the book that gives you a better idea of the story:
Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.
In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn't as easy to support as it used to be. So he lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe, for Hank's angry ghost — who isn't at all pleased to see Doc doing well.
This sounds like it will be a decent project for Hemsworth to take on. It's a project that will certainly help flex and expand his acting abilities and talents.
