If you’re a fan of Lawrence Kasdan’s warm ensemble comedy dramas – particularly 1983’s The Big Chill and 1992’s Grand Canyon – prepare to be pleased, because he’s making a third in what he views as an unofficial trilogy, called Darling Companion.
And Kasdan has recruited one of his veteran players, Kevin Kline, to star as the distracted husband who causes his wife (Diane Keaton) to give a home to a stray dog to make up for the attention he neglects to give her. But then the couple holds a wedding at their holiday home and the dog goes missing, which kicks off a hunt for the pooch.
Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss and character stalwart Richard Jenkins have also jumped aboard the film, which Kasdan intends to kick off shooting later this month in Utah.
“Lawrence Kasdan has a rich tradition of making comedies filled with a love of life – and Darling Companion has all species of it,” producer Anthony Bregman tells the Risky Business blog. “This is a movie about the most basic human challenge: to share with each other the higher level of love, companionship and trust that humans share with their pets.”