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Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener in "Into the Wild"
POSTED ON 05/01/06 AT 11:00 A.M.
BY ETHAN AAMES

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Catherine Keener and Vince Vaughn will join "Into the Wild," a project being directed by Sean Penn. Penn also wrote the screenplay based on the Jon Krakauer novel.

Emile Hirsch will star in the true story of Christopher McCandless, who graduated from college in 1992, abandoned his possessions and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness and return to nature. He died four months later in an abandoned bus at a remote campsite.