Megan Fox has secured her first major post-‘Transformers’ role joining Jennifer Westfeldt’s directorial debut, the ensemble comedy, “Friends With Kids.”
Starring Adam Scott and Kristen Wiig as well as real-life couple Westfeldt and Jon Hamm, the story reportedly centers on “a pair of thirty-something best friends who observe the toll that having kids has taken on the couples they know and resolve to bypass that stress by having a child and then dating other people.”
Scott and Westfeldt will play the lead couple with Hamm and Wiig play another, and Fox will play a girl Scott begins to date — not exactly the most challenging, typecast-breaking role, though apparently “when [Westfeldt] met with her, she thought Megan was spot on.” A third couple is currently being cast, which we guess may involve talent from an early script reading which featured the likes of Rebecca Creskoff, Rosemarie Dewitt, Noah Emmerich and Scott (who ended up being cast).
Shooting was set to begin sometime this month with a theatrical release for April apparently already lined up. Mike Nichols and Jake Kasdan are exec producing and assisting Westfeldt with her first time behind the camera. [THR]