Reuters?- October 03, 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Julia Ormond, David Strathairn and Catherine O’Hara have joined the cast of a feature film about Temple Grandin, author of “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.”

Claire Danes stars as Grandin, one of the leading speakers on autism, whose firsthand experience with the disorder led to her becoming an advocate for new treatments as well as a top expert in the field of humane livestock handling.

Ormond is set to play Grandin’s mother, and Strathairn takes the role of her university science teacher. O’Hara will play her aunt.

Merritt Johnson and Christopher Monger wrote the screenplay. Mick Jackson is directing the HBO project.

Ormond next appears in Steven Soderbergh’s “Guerrilla,” with Benicio Del Toro, and David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” Strathairn has finished filming the horror thriller “The Uninvited,” with Elizabeth Banks. O’Hara next will be heard doing voice work in “Where the Wild Things Are.”