The cameras are already cranking on the set of indie comedy Imogene, but that doesn’t mean co-directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini aren’t still adding names to the cast. The latest to sign on? Matt Dillon.
Imogene, written by Michelle Morgan, has been something of a passion project for Bridesmaids’ Kristen Wiig, who’s has finally be able to dig up the financing and team to get it made.
She’s starring as a playwright who fakes a suicide attempt after she loses her job, her boyfriend and her apartment. Unfortunately for her, her gambling addicted mother (Annette Bening) is assigned custody of her, which doesn’t exactly make matters any easier.
Dillon is on to play Bening’s oddball love interest, a man who claims to be a CIA agent, but is likely either A) a big liar or B) crazy cuckoo bananas. He’s available for the movie after dropping out of the Elmore Leonard adaptation Freaky Deaky.
With the likes of Natasha Lyonne and Glee’s Darren Criss also in the cast, Imogene should be out next year.