Oscar winner Casey Oscar winner Casey Affleck will be star ring in and producing the film, The World to Come. The actor will produce the feature along with Whitaker Lader. The film is an adaptation of Jim Shepard’s 2017 critically-acclaimed short story of the same name. Actors Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby and Jesse Plemons will also feature in the film which follows the story of two women who forge a close connection despite their isolation in the mid-19th-century American frontier. (PTI)