Remember when corporate dramas followed the highs and even bigger highs of the busy lives of hotshot business men? Think back to Wall Street or Working Girl, the glory years of high-rollers and city traders. Well the times they are a changin' and in the current climate we love nothing more than to see those exact same heads roll, so Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones have signed up to show us just that in The Company Men.
The drama will follow a high-flying big earner - played by a savvy Ben Affleck, who signed up as soon as the recession kicked off last autumn - who loses his six-figure salary and Porsche when he loses his job. Costner takes the role of his blue-collar dry-walling brother-in-law who picks him up by getting him construction work. Jones will play the only upstanding senior partner in the firm where Affleck worked, wading through the greed, deceit and bad decisions made by his colleagues.
Costner and Jones are both currently working on directing projects. Costner is due to make The One, about a man who goes on a global adventure after he inherits $3billion, and Jones will follow up his first film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada with an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's Islands In The Stream.
West Wing writer John Wells penned **The Company Men **and will direct the film which begins production this April in Boston.