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"Sam Rockwell has signed on to star in director Roberto Bentivegna&amp;#039;s The Eel. The actor will reunite with The Way Way Back filmmakers Nat Faxon, Jim Rash and Kevin Walsh, who will produce the movie, reports Deadline.  Rockwell will play an escaped convict who is forced into a plot by a corrupt sheriff to kidnap the young heiress to an oil fortune. The plot threatens his newly won freedom. Bentivegna&amp;#039;s script for The Eel featured on the 2012 Black List. Rockwell will next be seen in Laggies with Keira Knightley and Chloe Moretz, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Watch a trailer for The Way Way Back below:  Catch up on all the latest TV and Movies releases in Digital Spy&amp;#039;s Screen Time:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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