Friends With Kids has added another friend; MTV reports that Ed Burns has joined the cast of the Jennifer Westfeldt film. His character will be Westfeldt’s love interest in the movie, a divorced man with kids. He is the latest to join the cast, behind Megan Fox, Adam Scott, Jon Hamm (Westfeldt’s longtime boyfriend/partner…friends in high places much?), and Kristen Wiig.
Friends With Kids centers around a pair of thirty somethings who, after seeing how having kids have affected couples around them, decide that they want to have kids…but also date other people. Usually in these types of movies, that’s just code for “and then the two fall in love anyway”, but if you’ve seen Westfeldt’s other work, especially Ira and Abby, you know that may not be the case. Either way, the cast is excellent and the plot is intriguing to say the least. I’m on board…even if Ed Burns starred in A Sound of Thunder and doesn’t necessarily get a pardon for that quite yet.
Filming on Friends with Kids is currently ongoing in New York City; expect a release sometime in 2011 unless Westfeldt wants to throw in some CGI stormtroopers in the background or something and that causes a delay. We also posted a first look, which you can see below and more at the link.
Are you one of the Ed Burns fans people hear about but never actually see? If so, does it raise your awareness of Friends with Kids, or are you just sorta “meh, whatever, where’s the Spider Man news?”