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Mia Maestro boards 'Savages'
By Adnan Tezer Jun 30, 2011, 19:23 GMT
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LOCATION: Dallas, Texas
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Mia Maestro has joined the cast of Oliver Stone's adaptation of Don Winslow's novel "Savages."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal will distribute the film.
Stone is producing with Moritz Borman and Eric Kopeloff.
He also did a polish on the script by Winslow and Shane Salerno.
Shooting is set to begin July 6 with a September 28, 2012, release date set.
The cast includes Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, John Travolta, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Uma Thurman, Emile Hirsch, Demian Bichir and Joel David Moore.
The film follows two marijuana growers and dealers (Kitsch and Johnson) from Laguna Beach who share a girlfriend named Ophelia (Lively). Ophelia is kidnapped and held for ransom when the two friends resist being pushed out of the business by a Mexican drug cartel.
Maestro will be in both of the upcoming "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" films.
