Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper now have a bit of female company in Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond The Pines, as Deadline reports that Eva Mendes has signed onto the movie, while Greta Gerwig is in talks to join her.
The film centres on Ryan Gosling’s character, a motorcycle racer who discovers during a visit to his hometown that he has a son from a one-night stand many years ago. In order to provide for his new son, he takes on a new gig as a bank robber, where he ends up running into an ex-cop and current politician (Cooper). Eva Mendes will play Gosling’s love interest and baby’s mother, while Greta Gerwig would be Cooper’s wife.
Blue Valentine helmer Derek Cianfrance is directing The Place Beyond the Pines from a screenplay he co-wrote with Ben Coccio. Shooting is scheduled to begin in late July un upstate New York.