“Mad Men” star Jon Hamm is reportedly set to star in longtime love Jennifer Westfeldt’s forthcoming directorial effort “Friends With Kids,” with the couple “hopeful” that Anne Hathaway and Kristen Wiig will also join. Not word yet if that’s just wishful thinking or if offers and scripts have gone out.
Details on the film are non-existent right now but, judging from the title, it’s presumably an exploration of friendships under the strain of parenthood for what will be the follow up to 2001’s “Kissing Jessica Stein” — which Roger Friedman oddly describes as “one of the great indie films of all time.”
The latest project, which Westfeldt also wrote, was previewed earlier this year with a reading at a theater festival. There, Westfeldt and Hamm were joined by the stellar likes of Rebecca Creskoff, Rosemarie Dewitt, Noah Emmerich and Adam Scott, which would make one hell of a cast on its own.
The project has likely been set up at Westfeldt and Hamm’s own production company, Points West Pictures, which they co-founded with the intention of collaborating on more projects in the future. One other project they had planned on teaming up for was a film adaptation of Cusi Cram’s play “Dusty and the Big Bad World,” an ensemble dramedy inspired by the 2005 PBS censorship scandal “Bustergate” about the pulling of a television segment centering on gay parents in response to a campaign by the Christian right.