Writer/director/actor Justin Theroux (“Tropic Thunder,” writer of the upcoming “Zoolander 2”) has joined the cast of David Wain’s “Wanderlust,” co-starring Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston and Ken Marino with Judd Apatow producing.
Not a bad group of talent at all to say the least, and we bet the cast will still expand to add a few more good names.
Aniston and Rudd lead the film and play a couple who retreat from city life to join a commune. Theroux’s role is currently unknown.
The project is a recently announced superstar comedy union between the fellas of “The State” and the Apatow comedy milieu from a script by Marino and Wain. Helmer Wain impressed studio execs by salvaging Luke Greenfield’s “Role Models” during massive reshoots, but he also earned a lot of cred by turning down a chance to direct “Little Fockers.” With a solid budget and studio backing from Universal, we’re excited to see what the Apatow-Wain union can produce.
Theroux is an in-demand triple threat these days. He wrote “Iron Man 2” all on his own, stars in David Gordon Green’s “Your Highness” as the villain (it hits April 2011), he obviously has the “Zoolander” sequel to contend with, and his writing obviously turned a lot of heads with “Tropic Thunder,” a key gig in his career arc — Ben Stiller loved his script so much, he pegged him for the fashion-obsessed sequel, and Robert Downey Jr. dug him so much he suggested him to Jon Favreau. We’d also like to see him take on another directorial gig when he gets a breather as 2007’s “Dedication” starring Mandy Moore and Billy Crudup was underrated. [Deadline]
