Focus Features has set Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo to star for director Terry George in RESERVATION ROAD, an adaptation of the John Burnham Schwartz novel.

Variety reports that the drama will shoot this fall as the first project under Focus' partnership with book publisher Random House.

Phoenix and Ruffalo will play fathers on opposite sides of a hit-and-run: Ruffalo's character kills Phoenix's son and flees. As the grieving father seeks revenge, the tragedy wears on both men in unexpected ways. Schwartz wrote the screenplay, and George polished it.