Ashley Greene has joined the ever-growing cast of Jim Field Smith’s political satire, “Butter,” which begins shooting next week in Louisiana.
The “Twilight” star will play a “rebellious high school teenager named Kaitlen Pickler” in the 2008 Black List favorite penned by Jason Micallef which follows a number of competitive characters in a small Midwestern town as they become entwined in an annual butter-carving contest.
Jennifer Garner is producing and starring in the Weinstein Company pic that’ll see her play the protagonist wife of a former butter sculpting champion who tries to take her mantle from her husband only to be thwarted by a young African American girl, played by Yara Shahidi. Ty Burrell plays Garner’s husband who is engaging in extra-marital affairs with Kate Hudson’s character though it’s not known what role will be played by the recently-announced Rob Corddry.
The project is definitely one to keep an eye out for and should make for an interesting offbeat comedy as long as it can steer clear of sentimentality, particularly that surrounding it’s alleged analogy for the 2008 Democratic primaries.