You’ve got the father and you’ve got the son — all you need is the bad guy, and half your movie is already made. After casting Liam Neeson and Joel Kinnaman in the action-thriller Run All Night, Warner Bros. have settled on Ed Harris to play the picture’s villainous mob boss, making way for a possible resurrection of his unforgettable, career-best turn in David Cronenberg‘s A History of Violence. Well, it’s something we can all hold out hope for. [TheWrap]
Jaume Collet-Serra — Neeson‘s director on Unknown and the upcoming Non-Stop — will helm a script Brad Ingelsby, centered on a mobster put into compromising situations when his boss needs to be killed — but, because he‘s tasked with the killing, ends up in trouble with both cops and robbers. Kinnaman enters the picture as his son, whose witnessing of the murder puts him in a bad situation, too: some want him knocked off, but his father needs to protect him. Harris enters the swing of things as “the syndicate’s violent leader, who wants revenge for the death of his son.”
Run All Night will roll cameras this fall.
In regards to a very different project, TheWrap have also picked up a casting notice for Noah Baumbach‘s While We’re Young — and it’s not a name you’d expect, either. Making his first big-screen appearance since 2006’s The Ex, Charles Grodin will give a turn in the forthcoming dramedy, his role being the father to Naomi Watts‘ married New York woman. Coupled with the last casting announcement — in which we learned that Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz (or “Ad-Rock”) would take a role that doesn’t appear to require hip-hop skills — it shows that Baumbach isn’t playing this one along the most of conventional of lines. Depending on how much you expected to see Charles Grodin and a Beastie Boy enter the same project.
Otherwise, Ben Stiller will play the spouse to Watts, while Adam Driver (recently in the director’s Frances Ha) and Amanda Seyfried have been set as the younger, more “hip” couple that shake up the film’s ’40s-aged leads. Look for shooting to kick off in the fall.
What do you think of Harris’ addition to Run All Night? Is Grodin a name that could bring anything special to the Baumbach picture?