First DON VERDEAN Trailer Here is the first DON VERDEAN trailer! The film, directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre), stars Sam Rockwell, Amy Ryan, Jemaine Clement, Danny McBride, Leslie Bibb, and Will Forte. DON VERDEAN will be released in theaters on December 11. Hired by an ambitious small-town pastor to find sacred relics in the Holy Land, a self-proclaimed Biblical archaeologist comes up short and his attempt to cover up his failure fuels a comic conspiracy from the filmmaking team behind Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. DON VERDEAN stars Sam Rockwell, Amy Ryan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Bibb, with Will Forte, and Danny McBride.