News > Big Cast Set for 'The Extra Man'

Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, Katie Holmes and John C. Reilly have been tapped to star in the comedy The Extra Man.  According to Variety Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini will be directing the film that will begin production in New York in Feburary.

Kline plays a failed playwright who works as an escort for rich widows on the Upper East Side. He develops a mentor-student relationship with a troubled aspiring playwright (Dano).

Likely Story's Anthony Bregman and Stephanie Davis of 3 Arts will produce. Stefanie Azpiazu, Ames, Pulcini and Springer Berman will be executive producers and Rebecca Rivo will be co-producer.

"This is a film for our times, these hilarious characters living on the edge of enormous wealth, scrapping for small pieces of the pie," Bregman said. "I suspect a lot of people will be able to identify nowadays."