Josh Hartnett and Sam Rockwell are set to star in "End Zone," a George Ratliff-directed adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel. Kat Dennings will also star.

DeLillo set his second novel in the world of Texas college football. Hartnett will play a gifted running back who is fumbling his attempts to acclimate to stardom. Dennings plays a student who captivates the jock. Rockwell plays the school's excitable publicist. Yet to be cast is a teacher of international terrorism and mass destruction who sees the running back as the perfect soldier/student.

Ratliff (Joshua) wrote the script with David Gilbert. Filming begins February in New Mexico.