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Michael Keaton to Join New Larry David Comedy
The Other Guy’s Michael Keaton is reportedly in talks to join Larry David and Jon Hamm in Greg Mottola‘s (Superbad) untitled Fox Searchlight comedy.
Keaton described the project in a recent ESPN’s pop-culture site Grant land interview:
I’m doing this movie — really an improvised movie — where he sets it all up in the outline and says, ‘Here’s what happens … ‘The plot involves two developers, David and Hamm as characters who each invest in an electric-car company with different goals in mind. When the car becomes a success, David’s character gets his original investment back, while Hamm’s businessman becomes extremely rich, building up a believable reason for tension and conflict between the two. Vet thesp Keaton who once played Batman and Beetlejuice is being recruited to play a crazy businessman named Stumpo, who is David’s friend. Keaton also talked about knowing David:
He was one of the first guys I met when we were both doing stand-up. He actually remembered the exact month we met standing in line outside of Catch a Rising Star. At the time, I was going back and forth [from Pittsburgh] to New York — driving my ’65 Volkswagen bug — trying to be an actor, or to write, and I’d just started doing improv. So the other day Larry and I were talking about that world and I said, “Do you miss that stuff?” And I didn’t even finish the sentence, and he said, ‘Yeah. I do. But I like to do it the way Ilike to do it.’ Which I get.
Others rumored to be involved include Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer and David Mandel to write a treatment with David.
Source: Variety 
