Following the mixed reception to Little Fockers, director Paul Weitz is heading in a slightly different direction, writing and helming an adaptation of Nick Fynn’s memoir, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City. Unsuprisingly, no film with that title would ever get a release, so it’s been renamed Another Night.
Now the movie has a star, with Variety reporting that Paul Dano will take the lead role in the movie, appearing alongside Robert De Niro. Dano will play a young writer who takes a job at a homeless shelter in Boston, where one night he discovers his long-absent father (De Niro) seeking a bed. The film will then deal with their relationship, with the dad an alcoholic conman who suffers frequent delusions, and considers himself a poet.
Weitz has long wanted to make the movie, and had previously got it set up at Fox 2000, with Casey Affleck interested in playing the son. Now the whole thing has moved to Focus Features, and it looks like things are coming along nicely, with two strong actors attached to the lead roles (while De Niro has been phoning it in for a while, hopefully this will give him something meatier to chew on).