Jude was Sean Penn's beast of (Jack) Burden in this 2006 film based on a Robert Penn Warren novel
This version of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning 
novel, written and ... Penn Warren's novel, and the Oscar-winning 1949 film 
based on it, ... All the King's Men tells the story of a journalist, Jack Burden (Jude 
Law) ... candidate, a self-taught hick named Willie Stark (Sean Penn).