Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of the untitled Steve Carell comedy currently set up at Warner Bros. Pictures reports The Washington Post.
Carell plays a loving husband whose wife (Julianne Moore) threatens to divorce him. As a result he hires a slick life coach (Ryan Gosling) to try and help him save his marriage.
Bacon will play an alpha male co-worker of Moore’s who has an affair with her. Emma Stone, Dan Fogelman and Analeigh Tipton co-star.
John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (“Bad Santa,” “I Love You Philip Morris”) penned and will direct the film which begins shooting this month.
