Well we said it was likely to be a quick turnaroud. Just a few weeks after he first announced the project on Howard Stern's show, Bryan Cranston is already shooting the quirky drama Wakefield. And with that news comes some more casting: Jennifer Garner is co-starring as Cranston's wife.
Robin Swicord wrote the screenplay and is directing the film, based on an E.L. Doctorow short story which was in turn a riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1837 original. The plot finds Cranston as a married lawyer in New York in the midst of a nervous breakdown after his wife discovers he’s been having an affair. When he spots a raccoon in the attic of his home, he decides to live up in the cramped space for several months.
This is Swicord's second film as a director following The Jane Austen Book Club. She also wrote the screenplays for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Memoirs Of A Geisha. Garner comes to the LA set of Wakefield almost straight from Barry Sonnenfeld's Nine Lives, which is out in the UK on May 27. And Cranston will shortly be back on our screens in Trumbo, about the blacklisted writer, which is out here on February 5.