Keaton, Goldblum Join Harrison Ford Comedy

The new Harrison Ford-Rachel McAdams comedy, Morning Glory, picked up a few more key pieces yesterday, with Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum signing on to join the J.J. Abrams/Bad Robot production. McAdams will play a news producer who tries to salvage her morning show by brokering a truce between its anchors (Indy Jones and Annie Hall), who get on like oil and something that doesn't go with oil...um...maybe oil and Ed Begley, Jr. Goldblum will play the station's boss. Forgive me for saying so, fans of the assembled talent, but doesn't this sound like that short-lived series starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton? (I had to look up the title - Back to You - because the show made such a lasting impression.) It's the work of Aline Brosh McKenna, who adapted The Devil Wears Prada and also wrote 27 Dresses, and that doesn't exactly help change my mind. I guess there's room for lighthearted adult comedies with a little AARP sexual tension, but I just get the feeling I'll wish it were darker and spent more time with Goldblum. Incidentally, one of Abrams' first produced screenplays was Ford's Regarding Henry back in 1991. Wouldn't have pegged him for that one, either.

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[MRPigg]

If they fall in love or even merely learn to tolerate each other, it'll be crap. If they go all War of the Roses it could be good.