Having spent the last few weeks running live reads of film scripts including **The Apartment **and The Big Lebowski, Jason Reitman has to get back to his day job: making movies himself. Busy setting up his latest, Labor Day, he is now targeting Tom Lipinski to play a key role.
Labor Day, adapted from Joyce Maynard’s novel, follows what happens when freshly escaped convict Frank Chambers (Josh Brolin) finds shelter with a depressed, divorced mother (Kate Winslet). Out shopping with her 13-year-old son Henry, she discovers Chambers bleeding from a wound and agrees to help him against her better judgement.
As the authorities close in, the mother and son learn more about their new houseguest across the titular American holiday weekend, and it’s definitely not good…
Lipinski is in talks to play Brolin as a young man, returning from Vietnam to marry his teenage sweetheart and discovering that she’s not the girl he left behind. He’s certainly a good facial match for the actor, and this could be a big film break for him, since he’s largely worked in television until now. Reitman is planning to shoot the movie this summer.