When he’s not busy helping induct items from Breaking Bad into the Smithsonian National Museum Of American History, the show’s leading man is taking on more film work. Bryan Cranston will star in a new drama called Wakefield.
Memoirs Of A Geisha writer Robin Swicord is scripting and directing this one, based on an eponymous Nathaniel Hawthorne short story. The plot finds Cranston as a married lawyer in New York in the midst of a nervous breakdown after his wife discovers he’s been having an affair. When he spots a raccoon in the attic of his home, he decides to live up in the cramped space for several months.
This will be a swift shoot: Cranston, appearing on The Howard Stern Radio Show, said he expected it to take about a month, but there’s no word on when Swicord will start the cameras rolling. Cranston will be back on our screens in Trumbo, about the blacklisted writer, which is out on February 5. And then there’s Kung Fu Panda 3, in which he voices Po’s father, headed our way on March 11.