They may not have shared any scenes, but Bryan Cranston and John Goodman were both great in Argo. Now they may get the chance to shine together as director Jay Roach has Goodman in talks for a role in Trumbo, which Cranston is locked to star in alongside Helen Mirren.
It’ll be based on the experiences of Dalton Trumbo, who was locked up in 1950 for refusing to answer questions before the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. The panel was obsessed with rooting out suspected communists in Hollywood (and elsewhere) and for his stance, Trumbo was blacklisted and refused work. He managed to score assignments under various pseudonyms, but it wasn't until **Spartacus **in 1960 that he got public credit for his work again.
Assuming he accepts the job offer, Goodman would play Frank King, a powerful producer in Hollywood who hires Trumbo to work for him despite his presence on the blacklist. The writer scored an Oscar for his work on King’s The Brave One. And according to The Wrap, Mirren will not, as previously thought, be playing Trumbo’s wife, but is instead set as Hedda Hopper, the gossip columnist who supported the writer’s blacklisting.
Roach will direct from John McNamara’s script, and he’s getting set to shoot soon. Goodman, who was last heard rather than seen as Hound in Transformers: Age Of Extinction, will next show up in **The Gambler **alongside the Michael Bay film’s human star, Mark Wahlberg.