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Jennifer Garner will star as Bryan Cranston’s wife in writer/director Robin Swicord’s drama “Wakefield”.
Based on E.L. Doctorow’s short story (a retelling of a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne) the story follows a man who unexpectedly leaves his wife for an extended period of time.
According to Variety, Cranston will play the “married Manhattan lawyer who sees a raccoon in the attic of his home and winds up staying in the attic for several months due to a nervous breakdown. He also said his character will become romantically involved with a younger woman at some point in the story.
Cranston’s character will depart his family after being left stranded and recalling a fight he had with his wife the previous night. When he arrives at home, he decides not to enter his house but instead climbs the stairs of his carriage house-turned-garage up to the attic space — and lives there for the next nine months, emerging only at night and rummaging through trash cans for food while watching his family adjust to life without him much faster than he expects.”
Producers are Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn of Mockingbird Pictures and Broadway’s Wendy Federman and Carl Moellenberg.
Production is underway in Los Angeles.
