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Former “Scrubs” star Zach Braff will join Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones in writer-director George Gallo’s action-comedy “The Comeback Trail”.
The “Midnight Run” scribe serves up a yarn that involves a shonky film producer, a mob boss, and a suicidal movie star.
De Niro plays “Max Barber, a man in debt to a mob boss (played by Freeman), who creates an insurance fraud by casting washed-up, suicidal cowboy/movie star Duke Montana (Jones) in a poorly written Western with the intention of killing him during the first days of filming. Duke somehow rises to the occasion, redeems his past misdeeds and brings Max and others along on the same journey, says Deadline, who has the scoop on Braff.
Sometime-director Braff will play Max’s producing partner in the film, a remake of a ’70s comedy of the same name.
