Steve Martin Joins Ang Lee’s BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK
Legendary comedian Steve Martin has been cast alongside newcomer Joe Alwyn in director Ang Lee’s next film, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. There's also a chance that Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy) could also join the movie.
Martin has been one of my favorite actors since I was kid. I love his films and his style of comedy. You just don’t see that kind of comedy these days. I guess he was the only guy who could pull it off. It always nice to see him get movie work.
This film is based on the novel by Ben Fountain, which “follows 19-year-old Texas-born infantryman Billy Lynn (Alwyn) and his fellow U.S. servicemen who survive a firefight in Iraq in 2005. The Bush administration brings the veterans home for a victory lap that leads them to the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium where they’re honored during the team’s Thanksgiving halftime show before they return to war in Iraq.”
There’s no information on who Martin will be playing in the film, but the report suggests that he has likely been cast as Albert, “a Hollywood wheeler-dealer who tries to set up a movie based on Billy Lynn’s experiences with the rest of Bravo company.” As for Hedlund, if he is cast, he will play the protagonist’s “moody, hard-as-nails drill sergeant.”
Source: The Wrap