The team behind** Valentine’s Day** follow-up New Year’s Eve have finally stepped up their game in the big name department with regards to casting the new film, as Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Hilary Swank are all considering roles.
Garry Marshall is directing the film, which will follow a similar multi-strand storyline format to Valentine’s Day, except this time set around the end of the year with several characters trying to figure out their lives and loves as midnight approaches in New York.
De Niro is looking to play a bitter, dying man who is spending the holiday in hospital and reflecting on his life. Pfeiffer is a frustrated executive assistant sick of never completing her resolutions who decides that this will be the year she finally sticks to them. Swank, on the other hand, is harried as the producer of a big New Year’s Eve show in Times Square.
And Kutcher, who is a veteran of the first film's cast, is taking on a different character, this time one that can’t stand the traditions and celebrations of the season.
The foursome are lining to join the already-cast Abigail Breslin and Lea Michele for the film, which is aiming to shoot next month (well, it would save on having to decorate the streets to look like Christmas time in New York…)