Rhys Ifans, Brie Larson and Juno Temple have all joined the cast of Noah Baumbach’s dramedy “Greenberg” which Scott Rudin is producing.
The film already stars Ben Stiller and mumblecore actress Greta Gerwig. It’s a relationship comedy, but more details have emerged.
The plot “centers on a New Yorker (Stiller) who moves to Los Angeles to housesit for his brother and figure out his life. He ends up having a relationship with his brother’s assistant.”
Ifans will play Stiller’s best friend going through a divorce, Larson is a college-aged temptress and Temple will play her friend. How is Larson getting all this work? We barely knew who she was outside a vague inkling about her jailbaity pop career a few months ago and now she’s tapped for this and a pretty decent sized role in “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World” as Michael Cera’s ex-girlfriend Envy Adams. Good for her, we suppose. Juno Temple is a British actress who was the redhead rape victim in “Atonement,” and we’ll see her before this later this summer in the biblical comedy, “Year One.”
The “Greenberg” script was written by Baumbach, but the story was conceived by Baumbach and his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh, who is one of the film’s (exec?) producers according to Production Weekly. Shooting begins in late March. [Variety]