Seven Pounds and The Pursuit of Happyness director Gabriele Muccino is putting together Fathers and Daughters, the generations-spanning drama he hopes will make you forget about Playing For Keeps (it won't). And to do it, he's already lined up one Oscar-winning star in Russell Crowe, plus Amanda Seyfried and Aaron Paul. But now he's adding a few more big names with awards experience.
Best Supporting Actress winner and current nominee Octavia Spencer (The Help, Fruitvale Station), the youngest Best Actress nominee ever Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), and Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) have joined the impressive line-up of stars. Crowe, who is also exec-producing, will play a mentally ill writer trying to raise his 5-year-old daughter in 1988 NYC. Seyfried will play the older version of his daughter who, 25 years later, is still coping with her troubled childhood. Spencer will play the head of a psychiatric clinic where Seyfried works, with Wallis as a patient who hasn't said a word since her mother was murdered. Paul plays Seyfried's boyfriend while Kruger is Crowe's sister-in-law who blames him for the death of her sister.
Look for this one to make a big impact when it arrives some time in 2015. Fathers and Daughters is in pre-production now in Pittsburgh. [Variety]
