It seems as though Zac Efron is intent on putting himself through the wringer these days, because off the back of his dirt-under-the-nails drama Gold (read our review here), a first look image from Peter Farrelly’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever appears to show the one-time song-and-dance man looking equally dishevelled.
The image shows Efron as his character John Donahue, who in 1967 watched an anti-war protest on television and promptly set out to track down and share a few beers with his childhood buddies in the United States Army, who just so happened to be on active duty in Vietnam at the time.
Based on a novel by Joanna Molloy and John Donohue, The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War, the film, which also stars Russell Crowe, will mark Farrelly’s first stint behind the camera since the Oscar-winning Green Book. He is on screenplay duties alongside his Green Book co-writer Brian Currie and Pete Jones (Hall Pass). David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Andrew Muscato on board to produce for Skydance.
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