All-Star Cast Joins Adam Shankman’s ‘This Is Where I Leave You’
By Germain Lussier/May 29, 2012 4:30 pm EST
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Deadline broke the news of this film, which is set up at Warner Bros. Here’s the plot description of Tropper’s book for a bit more detail.
Simultaneously mourning the death of his father and the demise of his marriage, Judd joins the rest of the Foxmans as they reluctantly submit to their patriarch’s dying request: to spend the seven days following the funeral together. In the same house. Like a family.
As the week quickly spins out of control, longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed, and old passions reawakened. For Judd, it’s a weeklong attempt to make sense of the mess his life has become while trying in vain not to get sucked into the regressive battles of his madly dysfunctional family. All of which would be hard enough without the bomb Jen dropped the day Judd’s father died: She’s pregnant.
With these four names attached, a majority of the major roles are cast but there are still a few openings. Bateman would likely be the lead, Judd, Mann would be the oldest sister Wendy and Hawn will be the matriarch of the family. Efron would probably be the youngest sibling in the family, Phillip, described as “the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.”
I’m always up for a good, adult drama with laughs and it sounds like this film will be just that.
