The buddy movie is about to get a double shot of thespian adrenaline, thanks to just-announced family comedy An Actor Prepares.
Seasoned board-treader Jeremy Irons will play notorious star Atticus, who finds himself stuck in a car with uptight academic son Paul (Jack Huston, pictured above). Paul hasn’t talked to his famous father in years, but has to give Atticus a ride to New York for a clan wedding. Sparks should inevitably fly in Steve Clark‘s “madcap, odd couple journey”, named after the legendary drama student touchstone by Konstantin Stanislavski.
Irons has contrasted his strait-laced persona with anarchic storytelling (most recently in High-Rise) to great effect and though Huston is portraying a professor, he has enough wildcard charisma for a dozen Hollywood films: he’s about to fill Charlton Heston’s sandals in the Ben Hur remake.
Clark directs from his script, co-written with Thomas Moffett. David M. Rosenthal, Tom Lassally and Will Rowbotham are producing via Pandemic Film and 3 Arts Entertainment. The shoot commences at Christmas.
This could be like any other frantic road movie, yet might just be something special with these two forces of nature at the wheel.
