Question: A Simple Plan was a thriller novel that led to a film starring whom?

full_context: Document 1: The Usual Suspects: The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, and Kevin Spacey.
Document 2: Schindler's Ark: Schindler's Ark (released in America as Schindler's List) is a Booker Prize-winning historical fiction novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie "Schindler's List" directed by Steven Spielberg. The United States version of the book was called "Schindler's List" from the beginning; it was later re-issued in Commonwealth countries under that name as well. The novel was also awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction in 1983.
Document 3: Seven (1995 film): Seven (sometimes stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, and Kevin Spacey. The film was based on a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker. It tells the story of David Mills (Pitt), a young detective who is partnered with the retiring William Somerset (Freeman) and soon tasked with tracking down a serial killer (Spacey) who uses the seven deadly sins as tropes in his murders.
Document 4: A Simple Plan (novel): A Simple Plan is a 1993 thriller novel by Scott Smith. "The New York Times" review said the book had "emotional accuracy with an exceptionally skilled plot." A film adaptation, directed by Sam Raimi, was released in 1998; according to the "Times" review, the novel is so dark that the story was adjusted to soften the ending.
Document 5: The Ruins (novel): The Ruins is the second novel by American author Scott Smith, whose first novel was "A Simple Plan". "The Ruins" is a horror story set on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. It was released on July 18, 2006 (ISBN  ).
Document 6: No Country for Old Men (film): No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-western neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name. A cat-and-mouse drama starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films "Blood Simple" (1984) and "Fargo" (1996).
Document 7: Scott Smith (author): Scott Bechtel Smith (born July 13, 1965) is an American author and screenwriter, who has published two novels, "A Simple Plan" and "The Ruins". His screen adaptation of "A Simple Plan" earned him an Academy Award nomination. The screenplay won a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a National Board of Review Award.
Document 8: Fargo (film): Fargo is a 1996 American black comedy crime film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating roadside homicides that ensue after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law (Harve Presnell).
Document 9: S. (Dorst novel): S. is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J. J. Abrams. The novel is unusual in its format, presented as a story within a story. It is composed of the novel "Ship of Theseus" by a fictional author, and hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity and the novel's secret plus loose supplementary materials tucked in between pages.
Document 10: A Simple Noodle Story: A Simple Noodle Story (), internationally A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop. (Blood Simple in the UK) is a 2009 film directed by Zhang Yimou. It is inspired by "Blood Simple", the 1984 debut of the Coen brothers, whose films Zhang Yimou lists as among his favorites. The film transports the original film's plot from a town in Texas to a noodle shop in a small desert town in Gansu province.
Document 11: A Simple Favor: A Simple Favor is the debut thriller novel by Darcey Bell. It was first published on March 21, 2017 by Harper. The novel centers around Stephanie, a mom blogger who seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's sudden disappearance from their small town in Connecticut. Employing the unreliable narrator technique, the story is told through Stephanie, Emily and Emily's husband Sean.
Document 12: A Theft: A Theft is a 1989 novel by the American author Saul Bellow. Bellow originally wanted to publish the book as a story or serial in a magazine such as "The New Yorker", but his agent had trouble selling it to any magazine. Bellow, instead, chose to publish it as a book, and it was his first book to be published in paperback form, which was something highly unusual for a book written by an erudite and respected author. Bellow himself said on the television show "Good Morning America" that the book had the quality of a hardcover book, but lacked the requisite number of pages and, hence, was published as a trade paperback.
Document 13: Scott Spencer (writer): Scott Spencer (born September 1, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is an American author who has written eleven novels. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 movie "Father Hood". Two of Spencer's novels, "Endless Love" and "Waking the Dead," have been adapted into films. "Endless Love" was first adapted into a motion picture by Franco Zeffirelli in 1981, and a second adaptation by Shana Feste was released in 2014. "Waking the Dead" was produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Keith Gordon in 2000. The novels "Endless Love" and "A Ship Made of Paper" have both been nominated for the National Book Award, with "Endless Love" selling over 2 million copies. Spencer has heavily panned both film adaptations of "Endless Love".
Document 14: The Man Who Wasn't There (2001 film): The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role. Also featured are Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, James Gandolfini, and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins and Jon Polito. Joel Coen won the Best Director Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen's brother and co-director of the film, did not receive the Best Director Award as he was not credited as a director.
Document 15: A Simple Plan (film): A Simple Plan is a 1998 American neo-noir crime thriller film adapted by Scott B. Smith from his 1993 novel of the same name. Directed by Sam Raimi, it stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda. Set in rural Minnesota, "A Simple Plan" follows brothers Hank (Paxton) and Jacob Mitchell (Thornton), who, along with Jacob's friend Lou (Brent Briscoe), discover a crashed plane containing $4.4 million in cash. The three men go to great lengths to keep the money a secret but begin to doubt each other's trust, resulting in lies, deceit and murder.
ground_truth: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda