In the midst of what appears to be a little career renaissance, Kevin Bacon has been added to the cast of John Requa and Glenn Ficarra’s currently untitled Dan Fogelman scribed, Steve Carell produced comedy previously known as “Crazy, Stupid Love.”
Bacon joins the already exciting and talented cast of Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone and Analeigh Tipton and will play an alphamale co-worker of Moore with the two engaging in an extramarital affair that precipitates her marriage breakdown. Carell, meanwhile, plays Moore’s disillusioned ex-husband who acquires the assistance of a smooth-talking Gosling to salvage his life; Stone will play Gosling’s just as disillusioned romantic interest; while model-turned-actress Tipton will play a babysitter harboring a crush on the father, Carell.
Shooting will begin later this month in what we previously described as a golden-era James Brooks-meets-“Love Actually” style ensemble romantic comedy. The cast alone is worth the price of admission here though with Gosling, Stone and Moore sure to make up for any potential tiresome Carell comedy, though the fact he’s producing will hopefully mean a differing dimension to his unfortunate slate of Michael Scott-clones.
Bacon will join the pic on the back of recently wrapping Pachya Pinkaew’s (“Ong Bak”) first English language film “White Elephant” with Djimon Hounsou and James Gunn’s take on superheroes in “Super” along side Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Liv Tyler. He also had 2009’s telefilm “Taking Chance” which earned him an Lead Actor Emmy nomination.
