The cast for Elmore Leonard adaptation The Switch is coming together quickly now that writer-director Dan Schechter has found his leading men. The latest actors in talks to sign on? Jennifer Aniston and Dennis Quaid.
If they sign, the pair will play key roles in the film, which according to Deadline, is not actually serving as a prequel to Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. It will, however, still be taken from Elmore Leonard’s 1978 novel. John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey are set as younger versions of Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie, the less-than-successful criminals we first met as Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson in Brown (itself an adaptation of Leonard’s Rum Punch).
Gara and Robbie cook up a scheme to kidnap Mickey Dawson (Aniston), the wife of a corrupt Detroit real estate tycoon (Quaid). But he refuses to pay the ransom to get his wife back and Dawson in turn hires the two goons to help her get revenge on her husband. Modern Family’s Ty Burrell is also aboard as Marshall Taylor, a married country club member with a huge crush on Mickey who sees her get snatched and then dithers about whether he should try to help.
Schechter is looking to start shooting in May. Aniston’s next appearance will be alongside Paul Rudd in Wanderlust, which hits our shores on March 2. Quaid has thriller **The Words **awaiting a UK release and ensemble comedy drama **What To Expect When You’re Expecting **set to arrive on May 23.