Dark comedy Arthur Newman, Golf Pro already has the likes of Colin Firth and Emily Blunt aboard. Now it’s adding Anne Heche to the cast.
**Arthur Newman **will find Firth as a man who absolutely loathes his boring job, is hated by his family and regularly admonished by his overbearing girlfriend (Heche). So he decides to pull a Reggie Perrin and fake his own death in the hopes of starting a new life.
From the sounds of it, his plan initially works well, as he meets a charming yet troubled girl (Blunt) and conspires with her to break into people’s houses and pose as the couples while the original owners are away. Which, we assume, is where the title comes into it…
Though it sounds like an awfully lightweight concept for a comedy (and not completely original), the cast is at least decent. Adverts veteran Dante Ariola is behind the camera, working from a script by Becky Johnston, whose last produced screen credit was 1997’s Seven Years in Tibet. It's all being produced by Vertebra Films, led by Dr Helen Cappuccino.
Ariola is looking to start shooting this month in North Carolina.