They've both been spending time on the small screen for acting jobs, and now Michael Sheen and Michelle Monaghan are headed back to the cinema for director Peter Glanz' latest. The pair will star in The Price Of Admission.
Pitched as a Charlie Kaufman-esque story of creativity warring with reality and a man at the end of his tether, the film will see Sheen as playwright Harold Sugar, who is dealing with a mid-life crisis. His work is suffering (not that it was ever amazing to begin with) and the strain is also taking its toll on his wife, Eliza (Monaghan). She's sick of taking a back seat to his work and wants to start a family, but he dives headfirst into an autobiographical play. As the lines between fiction and fact start to blur, he begins to lose his grip on sanity.
Casey Affleck, who is actually attached to star in another project Glanz has been developing, will produce this one, and the rights will be on sale at the European Film Market in Berlin.
Sheen will be seen in new drama Home Again and Mike White comedy Brad's Status. Monaghan, in addition to her work on Hulu drama The Path, will appear in romantic drama Sidney Hall.