It’s all go with Playing The Field, the soccer-based Gerard Butler flick that started shooting this week. While earlier reports sold it as a fairly basic comedy about a football coach dealing with family and the attentions of a bunch of horny soccer moms, The LA Times reports that it’s actually ‘a kind of “Shampoo” set amid American manicured lawns.’
Uma Thurman, Jessica Biel and Dennis Quaid were already on to co-star, and they’ll now be joined by the recently signed Catherine Zeta-Jones and Judy Greer, while Stuart Blumberg, Oscar-nominated this year for his Kids Are All Right screenplay, has been brought on to tinker with the script.
Butler play a former football player (that’s soccer, not that American nonsense), who’s used to living a wild and crazy life and is now estanged from his wife (Biel). However he comes to realise that his hi-jinks have stopped him bonding with his young son, so he agrees to coach the kid’s team, in the hope it will bring them closer together.
However as the LA Times says, things get sticky when a number of the local women take a shine to him, including characters played by Thurman (Quaid’s wife), Zeta Jones (a vixen newscaster) and Greer (a hot-and-bothered housewife).’ Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit Of Happyness) is directing.