Would you trust Guy Pearce to find your missing, dead relatives? With his memory? Okay, so he’s come a long way since Memento, but he’s going back on the hunt for people in a new comedy called Mis-Fits.
He’s joined the film alongside Catalina Sandino Moreno (last seen in Twilight: Eclipse) Seymour Cassel (Kissing Strangers), The Women’s Cloris Leachman, and Virginie Ledoyen, who has largely been carving out an indie career and working on French films since The Beach.
Mis-Fits is the handiwork of novelist/playwright/documentation LD Napier (though the script isn’t adapted from any of her previous work) and she’s also snatching the chance to direct what producer Doug Claybourne tells the Hollywood Reporter is “a wacky comedy in the tone of Harold and Maude.” So there you go: hope for something dark, funny and classy.
We’ll have to wait and see if it actually turns out that way, since Napier doesn’t plan to start shooting until next May.