If cast, Lowell will take on the role of Skeeter’s (Emma Stone) boyfriend, Stuart Whitworth, a senator’s son who eventually breaks up with her because of the book (THR). This will be Tate Taylor’s feature film directorial debut with Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe producing under 1492 Pictures. Principal photography is set to commence this summer in Mississippi.

Lowell currently takes on the role of William ‘Dell’ Parker in the popular television series Private Practice.

Howard is part of a cast that already includes Emma Stone and Viola Davis from the picture being directed by Tate Taylor. Taylor wrote up the screen play off of the novel by Kathryn Stockett. Producing is Mark Radcliffe, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan under 1492 Pictures. The actress will next appear on the big screen as the blood thirsty Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, set to be released on June 30th. Read on below to see more of what exactly this novel turned feature film is all about.

“The Help,” is the story of three extraordinary women in the deep South in 1962. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but her mother will not be happy until Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but she has disappeared, and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

The Help is currently being written for the big screen by Tate Taylor off the novel by Kathryn Stockett. The story, set in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s, explores how the unspoken code of behavior governing Southern households is shattered when an aspiring writer interviews a maid, who speaks candidly about her experiences. The interview sets off shock waves that reverberate across the entire community (Variety).

Viola is going to appear in a few films within the remainder of this year, a couple of them being Knight and Day, Eat Pray Love and It’s Kind of a Funny Story.

The comedy-drama centers on 16-year-old Craig (Gilchrist) who, stressed out from the demands of being a teenager, checks himself into a mental health clinic. He learns that the youth ward is closed and finds himself stuck in the adult ward. Galifianakis plays a patient who becomes the boy’s mentor and protege, Roberts is another patient, and Davis plays a psychiatrist. Kravitz is the boy’s crush, Mandvi another psychiatrist; Graham and Gaffigan are the parents. Shooting begins in New York in early December.

The most recent film, still out in some theaters at this moment, under Focus Features is the romance drama “Love Happens” starring Aaron Eckhart. This film is being produced by Kevin Misher and Ben Browning and is set for a to be announced 2011 release date.