The impressive cast for the upcoming Ron Howard comedy, “Cheaters” aka “Your Cheating Heart, written by Allan Loeb (“Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps”) keeps growing.
The film already stars Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Winona Ryder and Jennifer Connelly and now has added a fifth major name in Channing Tatum (“Stop Loss,” the upcoming Steven Soderbergh film, “Knockout”) according to an interview with MTV and the “G.I. Joe” star.
Queen Latifah has also evidently joined the cast, the actress revealed in a recent ESPN chat.
The film centers on a man (Vaughn) who finds out his best friend’s wife (Ryder) is cheating on him (James), only to struggle with what to do with the knowledge. There’s no details who Tatum is playing, but according to his comments to MTV, it sounds like he’s the man, Ryder is cheating with.
“Most of my scenes are with Vince,” Tatum admitted. “I don’t know if I want to [say anything else]. I might want it to be a surprise. [My character is] definitely going to be crazy, that’s for sure.”
The film is based off an idea by Brian Grazer and is produced by Vaughn and Imagine Entertainment. The picture already has a January 14, 2011 release date so it shoots this summer in Chicago. It sounds like more of a Apatow-ian/James L. Brooks-ian dramedy than a comedy, or at least, that’s what we’re hoping for. Cause a comedy for Ron Howard? The unintentionally funny, ‘Da Vinci Code’ films aside the last time he directed a successful and quality comedy was 1989 with the very heartfelt, amusing and wistful, “Parenthood.”
If Howard can somehow can transport himself back to capturing that tone, we won’t argue. However, it doesn’t bode well as this writer recalls that the Playlist members who have read this script haven’t been exactly dazzled by it.