Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, and Harry Connick Jr. were cast in what film directed by the producer of The Exorcist?
William Friedkin: William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing "The French Connection" in 1971 and "The Exorcist" in 1973; for the former, he won the Academy Award for Best Director. William Friedkin:  Some of his other films include "Sorcerer", "Cruising", "To Live and Die in L.A.", "Jade", "Rules of Engagement", "The Hunted", "Bug", and "Killer Joe". Bug (2006 film): Bug is a 2006 American-German independent psychological horror film directed by William Friedkin. Bug (2006 film):  It stars Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, and Harry Connick Jr. The screenplay by Tracy Letts is based on his 1996 play of the same name in which a woman holed up in a rural Oklahoma motel becomes involved with a paranoid man obsessed with conspiracy theories about insects and the government.
Bug