Back in 2012, Elijah Wood was all set to star in indie comedy drama **The Late Bloomer for director Randall Einhorn. But, as they are so often wont to do, the film didn’t quite come together. Comedian Kevin Pollack has pulled off the trick, securing J.K. Simmons, Johnny Simmons, Brittany Snow and Jane Lynch to head the cast.
They’re part of an ensemble that also includes Maria Bello, Kumail Nanjiani, Beck Bennett, Paul Wesley, Ken Marino, Ileana Douglas, Charlotte McKinney, Vanessa Ragland, Blake Cooper and Leonora Crichlow, in the story adapted from Ken Baker’s 2001 book Man Made: A Memoir Of My Body.
It follows what happened when the E! News correspondent had a tumour removed from against his pituitary gland. The condition had been keeping him from properly going through puberty and its removal meant he experienced a sudden onset of changes at the age of 30 in the space of about three weeks. This one has quite the pack of writers whose names are still on the script including Joe Nussbaum, Paul A. Kaplan, Mark Torgove, Kyle Cooper and Austyn Jeffs.
Pollack has already been rolling the cameras in Los Angeles and he and his cast and crew are headed to Bulgaria to finish work on the film. Simmons is starring as a character loosely based on Baker, albeit one who works as a sex therapist. The elder Simmons (no relation) is his father, while Bello plays his mother, a pair of meddling parents. Snow, meanwhile, is the girl next door he has a crush on.