“It’s Kind of A Funny Story,” the new upcoming film from celebrated indie duo, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (“Half Nelson,” “Sugar”) is rapidly becoming one of our most anticipated movies of next year.
The story of a 16-year-old boy who checks himself into a mental ward, only to find himself stuck in the adult unit, already includes a great cast: Zach Galifianakis, Viola Davis and Emma Roberts.
Now it’s found a lead, in the shape of Keir Gilchrist, who plays Toni Collette’s son on “The United States of Tara,” and Aasif Mandavi (“The Daily Show”), Jim Gaffigan (“Away We Go”) and Lauren Graham (“Bad Santa”) have all joined as well. Galifinakis evidently plays another patient and a mentor to Gilchrist. Graham and Gaffigan are the boys parents, Roberts plays another patient and as previously reported, Viola Davis plays a psychiatrist as does Mandavi.
Zoe Kravitz (“The Brave One”), the 20-year-old daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet (which makes us feel fucking old), will play Gilchrist’s love interest. The film will start shooting in New York during December. Will be nice to see what Fleck and Boden can do with their first adaptation (though they ostensibly did already adapt, the 2005 Marisha Pessl novel, “Special Topics in Calamity Physics,” but that’s a Miramax project, so it could be dead or in limbo now; though Miramax isn’t quite over yet…).